SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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A. 
Sect. If. 
N. East 
Coast. 
At the distance of nearly five miles from the above island 
is the rocky islet a, in latitude 10° 36' 50", and longitude 
142° 27' 45"; it is of small size, and surrounded by deep 
water; and, being easily seen from the strait between Cape 
York and the York Isles, serves to direct the course. 
POSSESSION ISLES consist of nine or ten islets, of 
which 2 and 7 only are of large size, and neither of these 
are two miles long ; they are also higher than the others. 
No. 1 is a small conical hill; 2 is hummocky; 3, 4, and 
6, are very small ; 5 makes with a hollow in its centre, like 
the seat of a saddle. The passage between 2 and the small 
islets 3 and 4 is the best; there is six and seven fathoms 
water ; but in passing this, it must be recollected that the 
tide sets towards the islands on the northern side. 
ENDEAVOUR STRAIT is on the south side of Prince 
of Wales’s Islands: a shoal extends from Cape Cornwall 
(latitude 10° 45' 45", longitude 142° 8' 35",) to the west- 
ward, and is probably connected with a strip of sand that 
stretches from Wallis’s Isles to Shoal Cape. , We crossed 
it with the cape bearing about East, when the least depth 
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the situation of which is in 10° 42' 40" S., and 142° 28' 50" 
E. of Greenwich. There is also an island close to the point 
with a conical hill upon it, which has perhaps been hitherto 
taken for the cape ; from which it is separated by a shoal strait 
half a mile wide; the latitude of the summit is 10° 41' 35", 
and longitude 142° 28' 25". From this island a considerable 
shoal extends to the westward for six miles towards a peaked 
hill on the extremity of a point. In the centre of this shoal 
are some dry rocks. 
