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sometimes rocky bays, as far as Cape Burney. The coast is A. 
moderately high, and, in the interior, some hills of an iin- 
usual height for this part of the coast are seen. Mount VV. Coast. 
Naturaliste is in latitude 28° 18', and between the la- 
titudes 28° 25' and 28° 55', is Moresby’s Flat-topped 
Range. It is terminated at the north end by three hills, 
called Menai Hills ; and at the southern end, by the 
Wizard Hills. Mount Fairfax is in latitude 28° 45' 30", 
and longitude 114° 38' 45". The coast in front of this range 
is of pleasing and verdant appearance ; two or three small 
openings in the sandy beach, with an evident separation in 
the hills behind, particularly one in latitude 28° 36', bore 
indications of rivulets ; and the smokes of natives’ fires, and 
the more wooded character of the coast, shewed that the 
country was evidently more fertile and productive than any 
other part between Cape Leeuwin and the North-west Cape. 
The bottom at from ten to twelve miles off, is from twenty 
to twenty-five fathoms deep, and composed of a fine sand, 
of a dark gray colour. 
CAPE BURNEY is in latitude 28° 56': four miles to 
the southward is a reef, apparently detached from the 
shore. 
HOUTMAN’S ABROHLOS. The old Dutch charts give 
a very considerable extent to this reef ; Van Keulen makes 
it cover a space of sea, forty-seven miles long, and twenty- 
five broad. We only saw the islands at the south end, with 
three detached reefs between them and the shore; one of 
which (the southernmost) may probably be the Turtle 
Dove. The islands lie W. 4° N. true, forty-one miles from 
Cape Burney, but the channel (Geelvink Channel) be- 
tween the shore and the reefs, is not more than twenty-six 
