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APPENDIX. 
A. High Point the depth is not more than three fathoms and a 
Sect. Ill, anchorage is however quite safe. 
N. Coast, 'phg ] 3 ay to eastward of Point Smith, which has a reef 
extending from it for nearly a mile, has a shoal opening at 
its bottom of very little importance. At the north-east end 
of the bay, separated from the point by a channel a mile 
wide, and more than five fathoms deep, is a small sandy 
island, with a reef extending for a mile off its north end. 
PORT ESSINGTON, the outer heads of which, Vashon 
Head and Point Smith, are seven miles apart, is an exten- 
sive port, thirteen miles and a quarter deep, and from five 
to three wide; independent of its Inner Harbour, which, with 
a navigable entrance of a mile wide, is five miles deep and 
four wide. The port is not only capacious, but has very 
few shoals or dangers in it. 
On the western side, off Island Point, there are some 
rocks, and also a reef projects for a mile off the bluff 
point that forms the east head of Knocker’s Bay. The 
western side of the entrance to Inner Harbour, is also rocky 
and shoal for two-thirds across, but near the opposite point=^ 
the depth is thirteen fathoms. 
On the eastern side of the port there is no danger beyond 
a quarter of a mile from the shore, excepting a reef of rocks, 
some of which are dry ; this danger, when in a line with a 
remarkable cliff two miles and a quarter to the south of Table 
Point, bears E.S.E.^E. ; close without them the depth is five 
fathoms. 
The Inner Harbour is divided into two basins which 
extend in for two miles on either side of Middle Head, a 
cliffy projection, surrounded by a rocky shore for a quarter 
• This is Point Record of Captain Bremer, see vol. ii, p. 2S6.‘ 
