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dented, and probably contains several openings or rivulets A. 
particularly two at the bottom of the bay. The beach is Sec^IlI. 
generally sandy, with rocky points, and the shore is wooded N. Coast, 
to the beach ; the interior was in no part visible over the 
coast hills, which are very low and level. 
From the extremity of Cape Stewart, which is in lati- 
tude 11® 56', and longitude 133° 48', a reef extends to the 
W.b.N.^N, for eight miles and a half; having, at a mile 
within the extremity, a low sandy key, with a small dry 
rock half a mile to the eastward. Every other part of the 
rqef is covered. 
To the westward of Cape Stewart is a sandy bay nearly 
eleven leagues in extent, but not more than seven deep ; 
near its western end there is a small break in the beach, but 
it did not appear to be of any consequence. 
The extreme point of this bight is the eastern head of 
LIVERPOOL RIVER, whose entrance is to the westward 
of Haul-round Islet ; which, as well as Entrance Island, is 
connected to the above point by a shoal. Haul-round 
Islet is in latitude 11° 54', and longitude 134° 14'; Entrance 
Island is in latitude 11° 57', and longitude 134° 14' 50". 
The entrance is from one and a quarter to two miles 
wide. The reef extends for half a mile from Haul-round 
Islet, close without which the water is deep, the least depth 
in the entrance is five and three-quarter fathoms ; and, in 
some parts there are thirteen and fourteen fathoms : at seven 
miles within Haul-round Islet, the depth decreases to four 
fathoms, and then gradually shoals to three ; after which it 
varies in the channel of the river to between nine and tv/elve 
feet at low water. A bar crosses the river at the low man- 
grove island, over which there is not more than three feet at 
low water ; but, as the tide rises more than eight feet at the 
