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A.' fdr continuing the examination of the north coast, that it was 
Sect. Ill, found necessary to return to Port Jackson ; and as he left 
N. Coast, it at the strait that separates Point Dale from Wessel’s 
Islands, which is called in my chart Brown’s Strait, he 
saw no part of the coast to the westward of that point, nor 
did he even see Cape Wessel, the extremity of the range of 
Wessel’s Islands, which terminate in latitude 10® 59-|', and 
longitude 135° 46' 30". The group consists of four islands, 
besides some of smaller size to the southward of the north- 
ernmost, and also a few on the eastern side of Brown’s Strait; 
one of which is Cunningham’s Island, of Captain Flinders. 
Cumberland Strait is in latitude 11° 25', longitude 
135° 31'. 
Point Dale, unless it is upon an island, appears to be 
the east extremity of the north coast; its latitude is 11° 36', 
longitude 135° 9': there are several rocky islands of small 
size, lying off, encompassed by a reef, which extends for eight 
miles N.N.E.4E. from the point. In Brown’s Strait the tide 
sets at the rate of three and a half and four miles per hour; 
the flood runs to the southward through the strait. To the 
westward of Point Dale the coast extends for about sixty 
miles to the south-west to Castlereagh Bay ; in which space 
there are several openings in the beach, that are probably 
small rivers: one, ten miles to the S.W., may be a strait 
insulating Point Dale, and communicating with Arnhem 
Ba. 
CASTLEREAGH BAY is forty miles wide, by about 
eighteen deep ; it is fronted by a group of straggling islands 
of low coral formation, crowned with small trees and bushes; 
the centre of the northernmost islet is in latitude 11° 41' 50", 
longitude 134° 10' 5". To the eastward of Cape Stewart, 
the western head of the bay, the coast is very much in- 
