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APPENDIX. 
A. The above seems to be all that is worth taking from M. De 
Sec.t. V. Freycinet’s account as regards the navigation of Shark’s 
W. Coast. Bay. The coasts of the harbours of Henry Freycinet and 
Hamelin are much more detailed by him, and there is also 
much valuable information upon various heads, particu- 
larly as to meteorologicaL observations, and the productions 
of the land and sea, and a curious example of the effect of 
* mirage but as these subjects are irrelevant to the matter 
of this paper, they have been disregarded. 
From Point Escarpe'e to Gantheaume Bay, the 
coast is formed by a precipitous range of rocky cliffs, rising 
abruptly from the sea, to the height perhaps of three or four 
hundred feet. The coast is fringed with an uninterrupted 
line of breakers. The summit of the land is so level, and 
the coast so uniform, that no summits or points could be set 
with any chance of recognizing them. The depth at ten 
miles off the shore, was between fifty and seventy fathoms, 
decreasing to thirty-four in the neighbourhood of Gan- 
iheaume Bay. 
GANTHEAUME BAY probably affords shelter on its 
south side from S.W. winds : there was some appearance of 
an opening in it, but Vlaraing, who sent a boat on shore 
here, has not mentioned it ; and if there is one, it is of very 
small size, and unimportant. The shores of the bay are low 
and of steril appearance. 
RED POINT, a steep cliffy projection, is the north ex- 
tremity of a range of reddish-coloured cliffs, of about two 
hundred feet high, that extends to the southward for eight 
miles, when a sandy shore commences and continues with 
little variation, except occasional rocky projections and 
