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To the westward of this, the land appeared to be less con- 
Sect. IV. tinuous, and to be formed by a mass of islands separated 
N. West by deep and narrow straits, through some of which the tide 
Coast, observed to rush with considerable strength, foaming 
and curling in its stream, as if it were rushing through a 
* bed of rocks : this was particularly observed among the 
islands to the south of Macleay’s Islands. After extending 
for thirty miles farther to the S.W., the land terminates 
evidently in islands, which then trend to the S.E. ; and to 
the westward they are separated from Cygnet Bay, and the 
land to the southward of it by a strait five or six leagues 
wide. The narrowest part of this strait is at Point Cun- 
ningham, where it is twelve miles wide ; two-thirds over 
to the islands are two rocky islets, which bear due south 
from Sunday Strait. 
Montgomery Islands, a group of seven islets on the 
eastern side of this extensive range of islands, which are 
named BUCCANEER’S ARCHIPELAGO, are low and of 
small extent, particularly the six easternmost, none of which 
are a mile long : the westernmost, which has an extensive reef 
stretching to the N.W., is more than three miles in dia- 
meter, and appears to be of different formation to the other, 
being low and flat, whilst the rest are scarcely better than a 
heap of stones, slightly clothed with vegetation. Between 
the easternmost islet and the land, there is a strait of a 
league in width. The tide prevented our trying its depth : 
a league and a half to the north-west, at high-water, we had 
irregular soundings between ten and sixteen fathoms, but 
six fathoms must be deducted from it to reduce it to the 
depth at low water. 
Three leagues to the north-west of Montgomery’s west- 
ernmost island are Cockell’s Isles, two in number, low and 
