Off the latter point there is a reef which does not extend to a greater distance than a mile and a half.
To the south of Point Pearce there is a very extensive opening, which bad weather and other circumstances did not allow of being examined.

It is nearly thirty miles wide, and the depth across between eight fathoms and twenty.

The south shore is lined by a considerable reef extending for seven miles from the beach.

The land was very indistinctly seen at the back, but, in one part, there was a space of more than eighteen miles, in which nothing was visible.

The strength of the tide, the bottom being sandy instead of mud, as in other parts of the neighbourhood, and the rocky overfalls on either side of the entrance bespeak this opening to be of considerable size and importance.
The shore to CAPE DOMETT was very indistinctly seen.