APPENDIX. A. weeds, and is sufficiently protected from easterly winds by Sect. VI. BnEAKSEA and MICHAI?LMAS ISLANDS. *?e anchorage S. Coast. between SEAL ISLAHD and the first sandy beach to the westward of BALD HEAl), with the low fiat rocky islet bearin? west, in six or seven fathoms sand and. weeds, should be preferred during the summer months; for the easterly winds then prevail, and sometimes blow strong, even as late as March; the anchorage is landlocked, excepting in the direction of E.b.lq, the only quarter to which it is ex- posed, and 'even in that direction the an� subtending the sea horizon is not gTeater than ten de/Tees of the circle, which is ef insignificant consequence. There is no water nearer to this anchorage than in. die sandy bay above ment/,Shed, but the distance is t6fiing for a ship that can send beats with men euough to protect themselves while employed in filling the casks, for notwithstanding the friendly cornmini/cation we have had with the inhabitants of this sound, they are not to be trusted, unless their character is difi?erent from the rest of their countryhen that we have seen. Water /8 procured at Princess Royal and Oyster Her- hours by digging holes at the edge ef the sand under the hills; but, at the latter place, the stream that we used out-, side ?e bar affords plenty, of excellent qual/ty, without the trouble of dii?in ?. Over the bar of Oyster Harbour there is not more than ten and a half feet at low water, and in the neaps twelve feet at high water; but it is likely that, at sDrinG-tides , there may be fourteen feet, or perhaps more/f the wind is biowin? into the harbour; but during the sprin?s high water always takes place at night, and it would not, therefore, be prudent to at- tempt to pass the bar at that t/me. A vessel intendin G to ?o ? Oyster Harbour should anchor off the sandy beach immediately to the eastward of the en-
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