SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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flat, but of small size. A teef extends for more than five 
miles to the westward, and it was not thought improbable 
that it might be connected with the reefs that extend to the 
westward of Montgomery Islands. The centre of the largest 
island is in 15° 48' S., and 124° 4' E. To the N.E. of 
Cockell’s Islands the flood-tide sets to the south ; but to 
the westward with great strength to the S.E., and, at an 
anchorage ten miles to the eastward of Macleay Isles, the 
tide rose and fell thirty-six feet, the moon being twenty- 
one days old. Cockell’s Islands are twenty miles from the 
land to the south ; and in this interval, but within four 
leagues from the shore, are several small rocky islets, on 
one of which there is a remarkable lump ; nearer the shore 
are two islands, which have a more fertile and verdant ap- 
pearance than any other part near them : these form the 
western extremity of Collier’s Bay. 
Macleay Isles lie in a N.b.W. direction, and are eight 
miles in extent; the principal and highest island is near 
the south end of the group ; those to the northward are 
small and straggling. The centre of the highest is in la- 
titude 15° 57', and longitude 123° 42'. 
Cafearelli Island was seen by the French. Its sum- 
mit is in latitude 16° 2' 25", and longitude 123° 18' 35". 
It is the north-westernmost of a range of islands, extending 
in the direction of N. 60° W. ; among which Cleft Island, 
so named from a remarkable cleft or chasm near its north 
end, and Dampier’s Monument, are conspicuous : the latter 
is a high lump. This range is separated from one of a similar 
nature, and extending in a like direction to the eastward, 
by a strait from three to four miles wide, and from fifteen 
to twenty deep. 
A. 
Sect. IV. 
N.'West 
Coast. 
