302 APPENDIX. A. hauling close round the east end of v, a W.b.N.?N. course 9oct. H. will carry a vessel a quarter of a mile to leeward of the 1?. East west end of w; the north-west extreme of W is three miles Comt? and a quarter $. 35 �from Islet I. The islets 1 and 2 are contained in a triangular-shaped reef, of about a mile and three quartera'in extent; they are covered with low trees. Islet 1 is in latitude 11 � 4?" No. 3 is a sandy islet crowned with bushes at the north-west end of a coral reef ofabouta mile and ahalfin length. Be- tween the two latter reefs there appeared to be a channel of a mile wide in the direction of about N.W. 4, 5, and 6, are sandy islets covered with bushes, on small detached reefs, with, apparently, a passage between each: 4 is in lat. 11 � 30". 7, a small bushy island *, is separated from CAIRI?CROS$ ISLAND by s channel two miles wide. The latter is a small woody island, situated at the north-west end of a coral reef, more than two miles long and one bro. ad; the north-west point of the reef runs off with a sharp point for about a quarter of a mile from the islet. There is goodlanchorage under it, but the depth is fifteen fathoms, and the sea is rather heavy at times with the tide setting against the wind; the latitude of its centre is 11 � 30", and its longitude 142 � 35". (See vol. i.p. 388, & ii. p. 29.) 8, 9, and I0, are low, woody islets: 8 is five miles to the eastward of Cairncross Island; 9 and 10 are to the north- ward of 8. 11 is also low and woody, but its position was not clearly ascertained. �* A rocky reef extends for two miles to the southw'ard off*let ?. --Roe MS.
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