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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Section 
VIII. 
' Inner 
Route. 
Haggerston^s Island, and round the outermost of Sir Everard 
Home’s Group. 
The anchorages between Cape Flinders and this are so 
numerous as not to require particular mention : the north- 
west end of every reef will afford shelter; but the anchor 
should not be dropped too near, because the tide sweeps 
round the edge with greater strength than it does at half a 
mile off, within which distance the bottom is generally 
deeper. If the day is advanced and the breeze fresh, 
Night Island should not be passed: because the anchor- 
ages between it and Piper’s Islands are rather exposed; 
and a vessel getting underweigh from Night Island at day- 
light will easily reach Piper’s Islands, or Margaret Bay, 
before dark. 
The latter bay is round Cape Grenville ; it is fronted by 
Sunday Island, which affords good shelter from the wind : it 
is a safe place to stop at. 
In passing round Sir Everard Home’s Islands, steer wide 
from them, to avoid the tide drifting you towards the group, 
for it sets to the N.W, across the course. The course is 
then about N.W.^W. to the Bird Isles, and thence, to the 
reef v, about N.W.b.N. ; the better and more direct plan is 
to pass within y and w, (there is, however, a safe channel 
between them,) and when abreast of the west end of the 
latter, the course to Cairncross Island is N.b.W.JW., and 
the distance about eighteen miles. 
There not being any very good anchorage between this 
and Cape York, it would be perhaps better to anchor under 
it for the night, in about fourteen or fifteen fathoms, mud, 
the island bearing S.E., but not nearer than half a mile, be- 
cause, within that distance, the bottom is rocky. 
Leaving Cairncross Island, steer N.N.W. JW. until Escape 
River is abreast of you, when look out for reef X: steer 
