SAILIN? DIRECTIONS. from tlve to ?evea broad: it is terminated' by two riveet, ?. Hunter's and Rce'? It has several r?eky islands mt Serf. eithor ?hore; and, at the bottom, they are numerous, Tim tide here rises at the sprin?s twenty?ine feet. The o? eho?a?e is not so good ?n the entrenee of the port, but � good bottom ma?y be found as soma as Hunter's River begi# to open, and bears E. iS., and when ?ou are w?thin a small island that is in the centre of the port; but am anchorswe may very probably be obtained on the northern 8bore, indeed, any where out of the strength of the tides. HusTBs's Rxvs? runs up for about fourteen miles, It is about one mile and a half wide at the entrance, and pre- serves that width lot more th?m four n?lee, when it 8nddenly contracts and becomes shoal, and very tortuous in its eoutse, and winds through a narrow chasm in the rocks, whi? rise preeipitously in some pa?ts for nt l?ast two) or three h?mdred feet. A vessel may anchor in seven fathoms near the end the first reach; its course is to tlm E.N.E. There is a remarkable rock at the entrance, in latitude 15 �30", and longitude 125 �. Ros's Rtvstt 6rst t?nds for eeventeeu miles to the E.b.$., and then, taking a sudden turn to thu south, runs up for thirteen miles more; after wht(41 Jt tr?8 to the $.E., and was su?)l)OSed to run up foF at least ten nailes Farther. Its entrance FOF seven miles fomns a very good harbour, being from two to six fathoms deep; but, i? anchor- iog here, it must be recollected t?at the tide falls twenty*nine feet. This river, like Hunter's ]?iver, i8 bounded on eithe? bank by precipitous hills, which, in many Pe!? are inac- cessible. Five miles to the 'w?stward of Cape ToTtens it Point Hardy: o?'d3e latter is an islet; and three Miles, N.h.E.?E. frofit ?t, i8 a ree?, on which ?he sea breaks. This point the tsot head ? Poa? N?LSOS, which extends M. the sou?-
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