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tude 123° 10'; from the northward it has the appearance of 
being an island, as the land, to the westward, is rather lower : 
two miles and a half south of it is Carlisle Head, the north 
extremity of Gooden ough Bay. 
The shore thence extends in a S.S*E. direction for seventeen 
miles, in which space there is a shoal bay, beyond which 
we did not penetrate. Off the point is an islet, in latitude 
about 16° 58', and to the south Of it the land was seen 
trending to the S.b.E. for four or five miles, when it was 
lost in distance. From this anchorage no land was dis- 
tinctly seen to the eastward; betv,reen the bearings of E.N.E. 
and S.S.E., a slight glimmering of land was raised above 
the horizon, by the effect of refraction ; but this, as in a case 
that occurred before in a neighbouring part off Point Gan- 
theaume, might be at least fifty miles off. 
From all that is at present known of this remarkable 
opening, there is enough to excite the greatest interest ; 
since, from the extent of the opening, the rapidity of the 
stream, and the great rise and fall of the tides, there must 
be a very extensive gulf or opening, totally different from 
every thing that has been before seen. 
There is also good reason to suspect that the land be- 
tween Cape L6veque and Point Gantheaume is an island; 
and if so, the mouth of this opening is eight miles wide ; 
besides, who is to say that the land even of Cape Villaret 
may not also be an island? The French expedition only 
saw small portions of the coast to the southward ; but it does 
not appear probable that the opening extends to the south- 
ward of Cape Villaret. (See vol. ii. p. 212.) 
Thirty- three miles in a N. 14° W. direction from the 
summit of Caffarelli Island is ADELE ISLANJ). It is low, 
and merely covered with a few shrubs, and is about three 
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N.'West 
Coast. 
