3'72 APPENDIX, A, 'The above seem a be'all.that is worth t?king from M. De See?. V. Freyeinet's aeeount as re?s the navigation of Shark's W. C?ast. Bay. ?ne eoasts of the barbours of Henry Freyeinet and Hamelin are much more detailed by him, and there is also much valuable information upon v?c?ions heads, Portieu- larly as to meteorological observations, and the productions of the land and sea, and a curious example of the etfect of �' mirage.;" but as these subjects are irrelevant to the matter of this paper, they have been disregarded. -From PotsT EscA,*rz's to GASTnSAVMS BAY, the coast is formed by a precipitous range of rocky clitfs, rising abruptly from the sea, to the height perhaps of three or four- hundred feet. The coast is frlnged with an uninterrupted line ofbreakere. The summit of the land is so level, and �the coast so uniform, that no summits or 'points could be set �with any chance of recoffnizing them. The depth at ten miles off the shore, was between fifty ,and seventy fathoms, .decreasing to thirty-four in the neighbourhood qf Gan- theaurae Bay. GANTHEAUME BAY probably aifords shelter on its south side from S.W. winds: them was some appearance of .an opening in it, but Viaming, who sent a boat on shore here, has not mentioned it; and .if there is one, it is of very ?mall size, and unimportant. The shores of the bay are low .and of sterll appearance. RED POINT, a steep cliffy projection, is the north ex- tremity of st range of reddish-coloured clitfs, of about two hundred feet high, that extends to the southward for eight miles, when a sandy shore commences and continues with little variation, except occasional rocky projections and
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