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three miles and a quarter from the rock off Hammond’s 
Island, and about N. 45° W. two and a quarter miles from 
the opening between Good and Hammond’s Island ; the 
marks for avoiding it are given in the sailing-directions. 
Abreast of Wednesday, Hammond, and Good’s Islands, 
is the North-west Reef, an extensive coral bank, many 
parts of which are dry; it is ten or eleven miles long; the 
channel between it and the islands is from one mile and 
three-quarters to two miles and a quarter wide. 
A. 
Sect. If. 
N. East 
Coast. 
BOOBY ISLAND (latitude of its centre 10° 36', lon- 
gitude 141° 52' 50") is a small rocky islet of scarcely a 
third of a mile in diameter ; its south-west end has a shoal 
projecting from it for half a mile, but its other sides are bold 
to. In a N. 70° E. direction from it, at the distance of two 
miles and three-quarters, is a sand bank with three fathoms ; 
it was discovered by the ships Claudine and Mary, on 
their passage through Torres’ Strait, when it was named 
Larpent’s Bank*. 
SECTION III. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE WINDS AND WEATHER, AND OF 
THE PORTS AND COAST BETWEEN WESSEL’S 
ISLANDS AND CLARENCE STRAIT. 
IN the sea that separates the land of New Guinea and the 
islands of Timor Laoet and Arroo from the north coast of 
Australia, the winds are periodical, and are called the east 
* It is near the west end of a shoal of five miles in length, ex- 
tending in an east and west direction, a few feet only below the 
surface of the water.— Boe MS* 
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