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from five to seven broad : it is terminated by two rivers, 
viz. Hunter’s and Roe’s. It has several rocky islands on 
either shore ; and, at the bottom, they are numerous. The 
tide here rises at the springs twenty-nine feet. The an- 
chorage is not so good in the entrance of the port, but a 
good bottom may be found as soon as Hunter’s River begins 
to open, and bears E.JN., and when you are within a small 
island that is in the centre of the port ; but an anchorage 
may very probably be obtained on the northern shore, or, 
indeed, any where out of the strength of the tides. 
Hunter’s River runs up for about fourteen miles. It 
is about one mile and a half wide at the entrance, and pre- 
serves that width for more than four miles, when it suddenly 
contracts and becomes shoal, and very tortuous in its course, 
and winds through a narrow chasm in the rocks, which rise 
precipitously in some parts for at least two or three hundred 
feet. A vessel may anchor in seven fathoms near the end of 
the first reach ; its course is to the E.N.E. There is a 
remarkable rock at the entrance, in latitude 15° T 30", and 
longitude 125° 24'. Roe’s River first trends for seventeen 
miles to the E.b.S., and then, taking a sudden turn to the 
south, runs up for thirteen miles more ; after which it trends 
to the S.E., and was supposed to run up for at least ten miles 
farther. Its entrance for seven miles forms a very good 
harbour, being from two to six fathoms deep ; but, in anchor- 
ing here, it must be recollected that the tide falls twenty-nine 
feet. This river, like Hunter’s River, is bounded on either 
bank by precipitous hills, which, in many parts, are inac- 
cessible. 
Five miles to the westward of Cape Torrens is Point 
Hardy: off the latter is an islet; and three miles, N.b.E.JE. 
from it, is a reef, on which the sea breaks. This point is 
I the east head of Port Nelson, which extends to the south- 
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