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reefs, which have been occasionally seen. Captain Heywood 
saw a dry part, in latitude 11° 35', and longitude 124° 10', 
and there are shoal soundings in crossing it on the following 
parts; viz.y 
A. 
Sect. VIL 
Reefs. 
N. West 
Coast. 
Fathoms. Latitude. Longitude. 
12 coral, in 11° 21' 125° 23' 
16 „ 11 10 27 
12 ,, 11 7 30 
15 ,,10 57 34 
All of which are detached and separated by deep water. 
(See Horsburgh, vol. i. p. 103.) 
CARTIER ISLAND, seen in 1800 by the ship Cartier, is 
a dry sand bank surrounded by a shoal extending for four 
miles to the northward. It is in 12° 29' S., and 123° 56' E., 
by chronometer. 
Captain Heywood in 1801 saw the following reefs. The 
centre of one in latitude 12° 48', and longitude 124° 25'; 
and the other in 13° 29', and 124° 5'. 
HIBERNIA SHOAL, seen by Mr. Samuel Ashmore, 
Commander of the ship Hibernia, consists of two small 
sand banks in the centre of a shoal, four miles in extent, 
lying in an east and west direction. It is in latitude 11° 56', 
and longitude 123° 28', by chronometers. 
Mr. Ashmore also saw another shoal in 1811, the par- 
ticulars of which are detailed in the following letter. 
“ The north-east end of the shoal, fell in with on the llth 
June, 1811, by a good noon observation, is in 12° 11' S., 
longitude by chronometer 122° 58' 30" (allowing the south 
head of Port Jackson to be in 151° 25' 25"). To the west- 
ward of the barrier of black rocks, that presented themselves 
to our view, were several sand banks, the highest of which, 
