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APPENDIX 
A. 
Sect, VII. 
Reefs. 
E. Coast. 
SECTION VII. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOALS AND REEFS IN THE 
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE COASTS OF 
AUSTRALIA. 
ELIZABETH’S REEF, (see Horsburgh’s Supp. p. 52,) in 
latitude 30° 5', and longitude 159°, was discovered by the 
ships Claudine and Marquis of Hastings, on the 16th of 
May, 1820. Within two cables’ length of the reef, they 
found fourteen fathoms; at a quarter of a mile off the depth 
was twenty-five fathoms, but beyond that the bottom was 
not reached. It is about three miles in circuit, with deep 
water in the centre : the edge is covered, but some straggling 
rocky lumps shew at intervals above the surface of the water. 
The east side of the reef extends about N.NdE. and S.S.W. 
for one mile, but the greatest extent seemed to be W.N.W. 
and E.S.E. 
MIDDLETON’S SHOAL is in latitude 29° U', and lon- 
gitude 158° 53'. (See Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 508.) 
CATO’S BANK is in lat. 23° 6', and long. 155° 23'. 
(Flinders, vol. ii. p. 298, and Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 509.) 
WRECK REEF is in latitude 22° 1 1' 23", and longitude 
155° 18' 50". (Flinders, vol. ii. p. 330, and Horsburgh, 
vol. ii. p. 509.) 
CARNS’, or MID-DAY REEF, was discovered by Mr. 
Cams, the master of the ship Neptune, on the 21st of June, 
1818, having taken a departure the day before from Sandy 
Cape. It extends east and west for a considerable dis- 
