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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. IV. 
N.'West 
Coast. 
if they do exist; of which, from the account of the French, 
there can be but little doubt. 
Lowendal Island and Trimouille Island were seen 
by us, but not any vestige of Hermite Island, which the 
French have placed in their chart. From M. de Freycinet’s 
account, the two latter islands were seen at different times ; 
and since Trimouille Island has a reef extending for five 
miles from its north-western extremity, as Hermite Island 
is described to have, there seems to be good reason to sup- 
pose that there is but one ; had there been two, we should 
have seen it on passing this part in 1822 *, 
From the reasons mentioned in the narrative, there re- 
mains no doubt in my mind that Barrow’s Island, and Low- 
endal and Trimouille Islands, (which the French called the 
Montebello Islands), are the long lost Tryal Rocks. The 
latitude and description answer very exactly ; the longitude 
alone raises the doubt, but the reckonings of former navi- 
gators cannot be depended upon, and errors of ten or twelve 
degrees of longitude were not rare, of which many proofs 
might be found, by comparing the situations of places for- 
merly determined with their position on the charts of the 
present time. Many old navigators were not very particular; 
and never gave the error of their account upon arriving at 
their destined port, either from shame or from carelessness 
and indifference. 
A reef of rocks is said to exist in latitude 20° 17' 40", and 
longitude 114° 46' 6". They were seen by Lieut. Ritchie, 
R. N., in the command of a merchant brig, as appears by an 
account published in the Sydney Gazette. 
EXMOUTH GULF terminates the North-west Coast of 
* Vide vol. i. p. 193* 
