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tance : the ship passed round the western extremity at two 
miles off, and found its bearing from Sandy Cape to be 
N. 21° E., one hundred and seventy-six miles, and to be 
in latitude 21° 58', and longitude 154° 20'. Its eastern 
limit was not seen : it consists of a string of sand banks and 
rocks, from five to twenty feet high, with passages between 
them. (Horsburgh, Supp. p. 35.) 
A. 
Sect. VII. 
Reefs. 
E. Coast. 
SIR JAMES SAUMAREZ’S SHOAL was seen by Mr. 
Lihou; it is in latitude 21° 40', and longitude 153° 46' 
by chronometer, which was found correct on making Sandy 
Cape a day or two afterwards. There is reason to suppose 
that many other reefs exist to the N.W. of this position. 
KENN’S REEF, discovered by Mr. Alexander Kenn, Mas- 
ter of the ship William Shand, on her passage from Syd- 
ney to Batavia, extends in the direction of N.W.b.N.|N. 
for ten miles, and is composed of sand and rocks, some of 
which, at the south end, were six or eight feet out of the 
water: it is six miles broad; the centre of the edge (.^ north) 
is in latitude 21° 9', and longitude 155° 49' (by chronometer 
and lunars) : it was found to bear S. 67° W., six miles from 
Bird Islet, of Wreck Reef. 
BOOBY and BELLONA SHOALS. In the neighbour- 
hood of these reefs, Lieutenant John Lamb, R.N., Com- 
mander of the ship Baring, was embarrassed for three days, 
in which interval he was sounding in between nineteen and 
forty-five fathoms, and frequently passed shoal parts, 
upon which the sea was breaking. The limits assigned 
by this officer to the extent of the rocky ground, are the 
parallels of 20° 40', and 21° 50', and the meridians of 
158° 15' and 159° 30'. A sandy islet was also seen by 
him, surrounded by a chain of rocks in 21° 24^' S., and 
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