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APPENDIX, 
A. 
Section 
VIII. 
Inner 
Route. 
but this is not recommended, both because the wind is 
generally fresher as you increase your distance from the 
shore, and because it lengthens the distance. 
From the Turtle Group steer N.W.b.W.JW. until you 
see the hillock at the south-east end of No. 1 of Howick’s 
Group: then pass inside and within a mile of 2 and 3, 
and between islet 4 and Cole’s Islands, and inshore of 
6 and the dry sands s, t, and U. The Mermaid’s track 
will direct the course to Cape Melville. If the day is late 
when abreast of 6, of Howick’s Group, anchorage had better 
be secured under it, as there is none to be recommended 
between it and Cape Flinders. 
Upon rounding Cape Melville, the Islands of Flinders’s 
Group will be seen ; and as soon as you have passed round 
the stony reef that projects off the Cape, (the extremity of 
which bears from it by compass N.W.b.N., and from Pipon’s 
Island S.VV.b.W.|W. nearly,) in doing which steer within the 
reef that surrounds Pipon Island, direct the course for the 
extremity of the islands, which is Cape Flinders ; the course 
and distance being W.|S. nearly thirteen miles : on this a 
low woody island will be left on the starboard hand. 
His Majesty’s sloop Satellite, in 1822, grounded upon a 
small reef, bearing N.b.E. (easterly) from the extremity of 
the cape, distant about two miles ; but, as a ship may pass 
within a stone’s throw of the cape, this danger may be 
easily avoided. The best anchorage here is under the flat- 
topped hill, at a third of a mile from the shore, in ten 
fathoms, muddy bottom. In hauling round the cape, avoid 
a shoal which extends for a short distance from the shore 
on its western side. 
If the day is not far advanced, and you have time to run 
fifteen miles further, the ship may proceed to the reef d; 
but, indeed, anchorage may be obtained under any of the 
