on account of the deceptious appearance of the tsst. land; indeed. the strait which we discovered A?. I. leading to sea, was not' seen until we were within two hundred yards of it,. and would also have escaped o?. observation, had not the channel been so direct, that the sea horizon was exposed to our view. At.the bottom of this arm are two deep bays,. which were partially but-sufficiently examined. In most parts of Mun ?ter Water there is good anchorage, amongst several sm?11 rocky.islands, on one of which we landed, and climbed its summit, but saw. nothing to repay us for the trouble or the danger of the ascent: the surface was composed entirely of loose blocks of sand-stone, which, when trod upon, would crumble away, or roll down the nearly perpendic,lar face of the rock ;. and it was only by grasping the branches of the acad? and other trees that were firmly rooted in the interstices of the less-decomposed rocks, that we were saved from being precipitated with them. On ou? return we passed through the channel en the west side of the Midway Isles, .which we �ound to be very deep, and the stream very strcng, The next day we pu?led through the strait that insulates Greville. Island, and found that it com- municated witIx Munster. Water, at a part whero
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