APPENDIX. 
A.. Cloates until its insularity shall be determined, when, for 
Sect. IV. gf Geography, the name of Cloates Island should 
N. West be restored. At the bottom of the south-eastern side of 
Exmouth Gulf the land is so low and the islands so nu- 
merous, that it was in vain that we attemf)ted to examine 
its shores, which was also rendered still more difficult and 
dangerous to persevere in doing, from our losses of an- 
chors, and the strong winds which blew every night from 
the S.W. 
The North-west Cape is a low, sandy point, projecting 
for full two miles to the E.N.E. from the fall of the land, 
which was called Vlaming Head. There is a reef of small 
extent off the cape, but separated from it by a channel half a 
mile wide, and six fathoms deep ; a sandy spit extends also 
from the cape for about a quarter of a mile. 
The extremity of the North-West Cape is in latitude. 
21° 47' 40", and longitude 114° 3' 40"; and Vlaming Head 
in latitude 21° 48' 40", and longitude 114° V 40". 
SECTION V. 
OP THE WINDS AND WEATHER, AND DESCRIPTION OF 
THE WESTERN COAST BETWEEN THE NORTH- 
WEST CAPE AND CAPE LEEUWIN. 
We did not obtain much experience of the winds upon this 
coast, having only been upon it during the months of January 
and February, when they prevailed between S.S.E. and 
S.S.W., veering sometimes, though rarely, to S.W. In the 
winter season (June, ly, and August), hard gales of wind 
have been experienced from the N.W., even as high as 
Shark’s Bay ; and at this season the coast ought not to be 
