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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect.IV* 
N.'West 
Coast. 
the interior rises to an unusual height, and forms a round 
backed hill, covered with trees : it reminded us of the 
appearance of the country of the north coast, and is so 
different from the rugged and barren character of the 
Islands of Buccaneer’s Archipelago as to afford an addi- 
tional ground for our conjecture of t^e insularity of this 
land. The red cliffs extend for four miles to the south- 
ward of Point Coulomb, and are then superseded by a low 
coast, composed alternately of rocky shores and sandy 
beaches. 
CAPE BOILEAU is seventeen miles to the south of 
Point Coulomb ; here the shore trends in and forms a bay 
fifteen miles wide, and six deep : the south head is the 
land of Point Gantheaume, which is composed of sand hills 
very bare of vegetation, as was also the character of the in- 
terior. From Point Gantheaume, in latitude 17° 53' , the 
coast trends to the S.E. for about fifteen miles, where it was 
lost to view in distance : the extreme was a low sandy point, 
and appeared to be the south extremity of the land. The 
space to the south of this, which appeared to be a strait, in- 
sulating the land to the north as far as Cape Leveque, is 
nine miles wide. The south shore trends to the westward 
to Cape Villaret, on which there is a remarkable hillock, in 
latitude 18° 19' 5", and longitude 122° 3' 45". 
The space between the Cape and Point Gantheaume was 
called ROEBUCK BAY. It is here that Captain Dampier 
landed, in the year 1688. 
Three miles to the south of the hillock on Cape Villaret, 
are two lumps, which at a distance appeared like rocks. 
Cape Latouche Treville has a small hummock near its ex**^ 
