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wide, there is a patch of rocks in the centre, which always A. 
shews: the channel on the north side of these rocks is the 
best: the water is very deep, and the tide sets right through. West 
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The CORONATION ISLANDS separate York Sound 
from Brunswick Bay, and are situated in front of Port 
Nelson. The group consists of seventeen or eighteen islands, 
besides numerous rocky islets. On the largest island are 
two remarkable peaks; the easternmost is in 14° 59', and 
longitude 124° 56' 5". The island is eight miles long, and 
from four to two wide ; the others are from three to one mile 
in length ; they are covered with vegetation, and the larger 
islands are well clothed with trees. The great rise of the 
tide would render this part of the coast of importance, was 
it not for the wretched state of the country, and the un- 
productiveness of its soil, which are great drawbacks upon 
the advantage of the tide’s unusual rise. It is high water 
at full and change in Port Nelson at twelve o’clock, as it is 
also in Montagu Sound. 
Beyond the Coronation Islands there is a string of small, 
rocky islands extending for sixteen miles : the westernmost 
is Freycinet’s Group; the principal island of which Captain 
De Freycinet has described as resembling an inverted bowl; 
and, from this description, we had no difficulty in finding it 
out ; it is in latitude 15° 0' 30", and longitude 124° 32' 40". 
Among the other islands we distinguished the islets Colbert, 
Keraudren, and Buffon. On the last there is a small, 
grassy, peaked hillock, in latitude 14° 55' 25", and longi- 
tude 124° 43' 20". 
We passed out to sea between Freycinet’s Group and 
Keraudren; and within one mile and half of the latter had 
eighteen fathoms : it appeared, from the colour of the water, 
to have a reef projecting to the westward. 
