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country sandy and unproductive. Between Cape Borda and 
Point Emeriau is a bay ten miles deep, backed by very low 
sandy land ; and five miles further is another bay, that ap- 
peared to be very shoal : thence the coast extends to the 
S.W. for twenty-three miles to Cape Baskerville; it is 
low and sandy, like that to the northward, but the interior is 
higher, and with some appearance of vegetation. 
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Coast. 
Thirteen miles from the shore are the LACEPEDE 
ISLANDS ; they are three in number, and surrounded by 
a reef nine miles long by five wide. They lie in a N.W. 
direction, and are two miles apart : the north- westernmost 
is in latitude 16° 49' 40", and longitude 122° 7' 20" : they 
are low and slightly clothed with bushes, and seem to be 
little more than the dry parts of the reef, on which a soil 
has been accumulated, and in time produced vegetation. 
These islands appear to be the haunt of prodigious numbers 
of boobies. The variation is 0° 12' W. 
In latitude 16° 46', and longitude 121° 50' 30", the French 
have placed a reef, Banc Des Baleines j’’ which we did 
not approach near enough to see. 
Between Capes Baskerville and Berthollet, is CARNOT 
BAY ; it is six miles deep, and backed by low land. The 
bottom of the bay was not distinctly seen, but from the ap- 
pearance of the land behind the beach, it is not improbable 
that there may be a rivulet falling into it. 
At POINT COULOMB, in latitude 17° 21', where there 
is a range of dark red cliffs, the coast commences to present 
a more verdant and pleasing appearance than to the north : 
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