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8AlIANO DIRECTIONS. '297 tends towards Bolt Hehd, and forms several sinuo?ities, one . A. of which is WEYMOt/TH BAY of Captain Cook; the shores Kect. H. of the bay were not well examined*. N. East FAIR CAPE, so named by Lieutenant Bligh, is a pro* jection of high land, in latitude 12 �, Ion. 143 � 15": it has a reef off it according to Lieutenant Jeffrey*s count, but its situation does not appear to have been cor- rectly ascertained: we did not see it. BOLT HEAD is the north-weet end of the high land at the south end of TZMPLS BAY. It's here that the high !and terminates; the coast to the northward being very low and sandy; with the exception of CAPE GRENVILLE, which is the rocky projection that forms the north extre- mlty of Temple Bay. A little. to the south of the cape is lsmsw B?v of Lieutenant Bligh. The latitude of Cape Grenville's eemt trend is 11 o 57' 30', its longitude 1430 8'. e is a coral reef, with a dry sandy key at its northern end, in latitude 12 � 20', longitude 143 � 15#; it is about two miles long. d, a small oval-shaped reef in the channel between and e: it is covered, and has perhaps twelve feet water over it. e is an extensive coral reef, fourteen miles long, com- mencing in latitude 12 �', and extending to 12 �; and in longitude 143 �: it is entirely covered, except a few dry rocks at its north-west end: the south-eastern extremity of �Ther? is a dry sand four or five miles lq.W. from C?pe Wey- mouth.-*Roe