d consists of three small detached patches, that extend farther off than is at first observed.

There is also a narrow strip of rocks extending for a short distance off the north-east end of the reef off Hammond's Island.

Roe manuscript.) Abreast of Wednesday, Hammond, and Good's Islands, is the NORTH-WEST REEF, an extensive coral bank, many parts of which are dry; it is ten or eleven miles long; the channel between it and the islands is from one mile and three-quarters to two miles and a quarter wide.
BOOBY ISLAND (latitude of its centre 10 degrees 36 minutes, longitude 141 degrees 52 minutes 50 seconds) is a small rocky islet of scarcely a third of a mile in diameter; its south-west end has a shoal projecting from it for half a mile, but its other sides are bold to.

In a North 70 degrees East direction from it, at the distance of two miles and three-quarters, is a sandbank with three fathoms; it was discovered by the ships Claudine and Mary, on their passage through Torres Strait, when it was named LARPENT'S BANK.* (*Footnote.

It is near the west end of a shoal of five miles in length, extending in an east and west direction, a few feet only below the surface of the water.