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To ihe south of Point Pearce there is a very extensive A. 
opening, which bad weather and other circumstances did ^^ct. IV. 
not allow of being examined. It is nearly thirty miles wide, N. West 
and the depth across between eight fathoms and twenty. 
The south shore is lined by a considerable reef extending 
for seven miles from the beach. The land was very indis- 
tinctly seen at the back, but, in one part, there was a space of 
more than eighteen miles, in which nothing was visible. The 
strength of the tide, the bottom being sandy instead of mud, 
as in other parts of the neighbourhood, and the rocky over- 
falls on either side of the entrance bespeak this opening to 
be of considerable size and importance. 
The shore to CAPE DOMETT was very indistinctly seen. 
It occupies an extent of forty-five miles, and is fronted by 
extensive reefs, which project for twenty-three miles ; the 
north extremity of the shoal water is twenty-six miles, 
nearly due west from Cape Pearce. It terminates with a 
narrow point, and then trends in to the S.W. towards the 
coast. 
The Medusa Bank fronts the entrance of Cambridge 
Gulf ; it projects from the coast, near Cape Domett, to the 
N.W. for seventeen miles, and terminates with a narrow 
spit, thirteen miles north from Lacrosse Island, in latitude 
14° 30 Jh Both these banks are of sand, and their edges 
are very steep to. They are covered with large quan- 
tities of moUusca, which are also abundant in the sea in their 
vicinity. 
CAMBRIDGE GULF extends from Lacrosse Island in a 
S.S. Westerly direction for sixty-four miles. The entrance, 
between Cape Domett and Cape Dussejour, is twelve miles 
wide; but Lacrosse Island, under which there is good 
