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APPENDIX. 
A. sandy bay, from which wood and, probably, water may be 
obtained. 
N. Coast. 
PORT HURD, at the bottom of Gordon Bay, in latitude 
11° 39' 30", is a mere salt-water inlet, running up in a S.E. 
direction for eight miles ; it then separates into two creeks 
that wind under each side of a wooded hill ; the' entrance 
is three-quarters of a mile wide, and formed by two low 
points. At the back of the port are some wooded hills ; one 
of them, Mount Hurd, kept in the opening between the two 
points of entrance, is the mark for the deepest part of the 
bar. When within the entrance the port opens, and forms a 
basin two miles and a quarter broad, after which it narrows 
and runs up at from half to a quarter of a mile wide, with a 
channel four and five fathoms deep. 
The country here is thickly wooded, but very low, ex- 
cepting a few ranges of hills that may rise to the height of 
two- hundred feet. The south side of Bathurst Island has 
no sinuosities. 
Near Cape Fourcroy the coast is formed by sand hills; 
but, for the next fifteen miles, it is low and backed by 
wooded hills. 
SECTION IV. 
OF THE NATURE OF THE WINDS AND THE DESCRIPTION 
OF THE COAST BETWEEN CLARENCE STRAIT 
AND THE NORTH-WEST CAPE. 
g A.^ The nature of the winds upon the North-west Coast, that is, 
JL * between Cape Van Diemen and the North-west Cape, differs 
very materially from, the regularity of the monsoons in the 
sea that divides it from Timor and the islands to the north- 
