SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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GRFORDNESS is a sandy projection of the coast under 
Pudding-pan Hill (of Bligh), the shape of which, being flat- 
topped, is very remarkable : the hill is in latitude 11° 18' 30", 
and longitude 142° 43- 35". 
The country between Cape Grenville and Cape York is 
low and sandy, with but few sinuosities in its coast line : 
it is exposed to the trade wind, which often blows with 
great strength, from S.E. and S.E.b.E. 
ESCAPE RIVER, in 10° 57 j-', is an opening in the land 
of one mile in breadth, trending in for two or three miles, 
when it turns to the north, and is concealed from the view ; 
the land on the north side of the entrance is probably an 
island, for an opening was observed in Newcastle Bay, trend- 
ing to the south, which may communicate with the river. The 
entrance is defended by a bar, on which the Mermaid was 
nearly lost. (Vol. i. p. 239.) The deepest channel may 
probably be near the south head, which is rocky. The banks 
on the south side are wooded, and present an inviting aspect. 
NEWCASTLE BAY is nine miles in extent by six deep; 
its shores are low, and apparently of a sandy character ; at 
the bottom there is a considerable opening bearing W.^N. 
eight miles and a half from Turtle Island. 
Off the south head of the bay is TURTLE ISLAND, 
a small rocky islet on the east side of an extensive reef, 
in latitude 10° 54', and longitude 142° 38' 40" ; it is sepa- 
rated by a channel three miles wide from reef x, which has 
a dry sand at its north end, in latitude 10° 53', and lon- 
gitude 142o 42', it has also some dry rocks and a mangrove 
bush on the inner part of its south end. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
