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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
.Coast. 
hauling close round the east end of v, a W.b.N.|^N. course 
will carry a vessel a quarter of a mile to leeward of the 
west end of w ; the north-west extreme of w is three miles 
and a quarter S. 35° W. from Islet 1. 
The islets 1 and 2 are contained in a triangular- shaped 
reef, of about a mile and three quarters in extent ; they are 
covered with low trees. Islet 1 is in latitude 11° 28' 45". 
No. 3 is a sandy islet crowned with bushes at the north-west 
end of a coral reef of about a mile and a half in length. Be- 
tween the two latter reefs there appeared to be a channel of 
a mile wide in the direction of about N.W. 4, 5, and 6, are 
sandy islets covered with bushes, on small detached reefs, with, 
apparently, a passage between each : 4 is in lat. 11° 22' 30". 
7, a small bushy island *, is separated from CAIRNCROSS 
ISLAND by a channel two miles wide. The latter is a 
small woody island, situated at the north-west end of a 
coral reef, more than two miles long and one broad; the 
north-west point of the reef runs off with a sharp point for 
about a quarter of a mile from the islet. There is 
good anchorage under it, but the depth is fifteen fathoms, 
and the sea is rather heavy at times with the tide setting 
against the wind ; the latitude of its centre is 1 1° 33' 30", and 
its longitude 142° 50' 35". (See vol. i. p. 388, & ii. p. 29.) 
8, 9, and 10, are low, woody islets: 8 is five miles to the 
eastward of Cairncross Island ; 9 and 10 are to the north- 
ward of 8. 
11 is also low and woody, but its position was not clearly 
ascertained. 
* A rocky reef extends for two miles to the southward of islet 7. 
--Roe MS, 
