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APPENDIX. 
A. anchorage for vessels going in or out of the gulf, divides 
Sect. IV. entrance into two channels. The western entrance is 
N. West about two miles and a half wide, and is deepest near the 
Coast, jgiand ; but, at a mile from the shore, we had no bottom 
with fourteen and seventeen fathoms. The reefs project 
from Cape Dussejour for nearly three miles. On the 
eastern side of Lacrosse Island, within half a mile of the 
point, we had seven fathoms, and there was every appear- 
ance of the channel being deep in the neighbourhood of 
ape Domett. Shakspeare Hill, the situation of which is 
in latitude 14° 47' 55", and longitude 128° 24', is a 
conspicuous object on this promontory; it is high and 
rocky, and, at a distance, has the appearance of being insu- 
lated, like Lacrosse Island. 
Having entered the gulf, it trends to the S.S.W. for 
twenty-three miles to Adolphus Island, where it is divided 
into two arms, of which the westernmost is the principal. 
At ten miles from Lacrosse Island, the channel is narrowed 
by shoals to a wddth of five miles, the shores being twelve 
miles apart. The land on the western side of the gulf is 
high and rocky ; but the opposite shore is very low, and ap- 
parently marshy. The bottom is of sand, as are the banks 
on either side, and affords good anchorage ; the tide stream 
runs with great strength in mid-channel, but is easily 
avoided by anchoring upon the weather shore near the edge 
of the bank. 
The channels on either side of Adolphus Island are 
called the East and West Arms. The East Arm is from 
one to two miles and a half wide, and four or five fathoms 
deep. At ten miles it is joined by an arm that washes the 
south side of Adolphus Island, and the united streams trend 
together in a S.E. direction, under the foot of Mount Con- 
nexion, for a considerable distance. This inlet was not ex- 
