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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. IV. 
N.’West 
Coast. 
SCOTT’S STRAIT is a channel separating Bigge’s Island 
from the main : it is thirteen miles long, and from three to 
one and a quarter broad. It is of irregular depth, and has 
some rocks in mid-channel, which are dry: the deepest 
channel is near the eastern shore, the depth being from ten 
to fourteen fathoms. The strait does not terminate until 
you are to the westward of Cape Pond, for there are several 
islets off the south end of Bigge’s Island, and a considerable 
reef, through which, although there may be deep channels, 
yet they must be narrow. OiT the north-w^est end of Bigge’s 
Island are several rocky islets ; the outer ones were seen by 
me in the Bathurst, (vol. ii. p. 42): they are the Maret 
Isles of Commodore Baudin ; they consist of four or five prin- 
cipal islands, of about two miles in length, besides as many 
more of very small size oif the south extremity of the group. 
The northern point of the northernmost island is in latitude 
15° 1 ' 15", and longitude 124° 56' 40". The group is fronted 
on the north-west side by a considerable reef, extending 
N.b.E iE. for seven miles ; the outer edge being three 
miles and a half to the westward of the group. 
YORK SOUND is fourteen miles wide and ten deep: it is 
contained between Cape Pond and the northern extreme of 
the Coronation Islands. It is spacious, but the bottom, in 
the middle, is rocky: there is, however, very good an- 
chorage near the Coronation Islands; and there is also, 
possibly, as good on the eastern shore to the south of 
Cape Pond, which has a rocky island immediately off it, 
the situation of which is in latitude 14° 43' 20", and longi- 
tude 125° 9' 25". 
At the bottom of York Sound is PRINCE FREDERIC’S 
HARBOUR, a fine spacious port, fourteen miles long, and 
