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tremity, in latitude 18° 29', and longitude 121° 50' 50"; to 
the eastward of it, there is a shallow bay open to the north- 
ward. 
The depth of water in the offing of Roebuck Bay, is be- 
tween eight and twelve fathoms ; the bottom is sandy, and 
there are in some parts sand banks, on which the depth 
decreased three fathoms at one heave, but the least water 
was eight fathoms. The floodrtide sets to the eastward, 
towards the opening, and at an anchorage near Cape La- 
touche Trevilie, the ebb ran to the N.E. : but the tides were at 
the neaps, and did not rise more than sixteen feet. Captain 
Dampier, at the springs, found it flow thirty feet, which 
tends unquestionably to prove the opening behind Roebuck 
Bay to be considerable, even if it does not communicate with 
that behind the Buccaneer’s Archipelago. 
The interval between Cape Latouche-Treville and Depuch 
Island, was not seen by us. The following brief description 
of it is taken from M. De Freycinet’s account of Commodore 
B audio’s voyage. 
Lagrange Bay, to the east of Cape Bossut, is a bight, the 
bottom of which was not seen. Cape Bossut is low and 
sandy, as well as the neighbouring land; and, with the ex- 
ception of a small grove of trees a little to the north of Cape 
Duhamel, the country is steril every where. 
The Casuarina Reef is a bank of sand and rocks, parts 
of which are dry, on which the sea occasionally breaks. The 
channel between it and the shore is narrow and shoal, the 
depth being two and a half fathoms. The dry part of the 
reef extends from east to west for about two miles. 
Between Capes Duhamel and Missiessy, the coast is 
sandy and steril, with rocky projections : Geoffroy and 
Desault Bays are of the same character. 
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