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was four fathoms ; but on many parts there are not more 
Sect. II. than three fathoms. Variation 5° 38' W. 
N. East 
Coast. prince OF WALES’S ISLANDS are much intersected 
by straits and openings, that are very little known; there 
was an appearance of a good port, a little to the S.W. of 
Horned Hill, (latitude 10® 36' 35", longitude 142® 15',) 
which may probably communicate with Wolfs Bay; the 
strait to the south of Wednesday Island also offers a good 
port in the eastern entrance of some rocky islands and 
without them is the rock b, with some sunken dangers 
near it. 
WEDNESDAY ISLAND ; its north end, in lat. 10° 30' 10", 
and longitude 142° 15', may be approached close, but a con- 
siderable shoal stretches off* its western side, the greater part 
of which is dry. 
Off Hammond’s Island is a high, conspicuous rock, 
bearing W.|S., and five miles and three-quarters from the 
north end of Wednesday Island. Captain Flinders passed 
through the strait separating Wednesday Island from Ham- 
mond's Islands, and had four, five, and six fathoms. 
Abreast of the strait separating Good’s Island from the 
latter is the reef C, on which are several dry rocks, but 
abreast of it, and one mile and one quarter from it, is the 
reef d which is generally covered ; the latter bears S. 75* W. 
* d consists of three small detached patches, that extend farther 
off than is at first observed. There is also a narrow strip of rocks 
extending for a short distance off the north-east end of the reef off 
Hammond’s Island . — Roe MS. 
