A, SCOTT'S STRAIT is a channel separating Bi?ffe's Island Sect, IV'. from the main: it is thirteen miles long, and from three to 1?1. W,st one and a quarter broad. It is of irregular depth, and has some rocks in mid-channel, which are dry..' the d?epest channel is near the eastern shore, the depth being from ten to fourteen fathoms. The strait does not terminate until yo?t are to the westward of Cape Pond, for there are several islets off the south end of Biggs's Island, and a considerable reef, through which, although there may be deep channels, yet they must be narrow. Off the north-west end of Biggo's Island are severel rocky islets; the outer ones were s?n by me in the Bathurst, (vol. ii. p. 42): they are the Manet lSLzS of Commodore Baudin; they consist of four or five prin* clpal islands, of about two miles in length, besides as magi more of very small size off the south extremity of the ?roup. The northern point of the northernmost island is in latitude 15 �15', and longitude 124 � 40". The group is fronted on the north-west side by a considerable reef, extending N.b.E?rE. for seven miles! the outer edge being three miles and a half to the westward of the group. YORK SOUND is fourteen miles wide and ten deep: it is contained between Cape Pond and the northern extreme of the Coronation Islands. It is spacious, but the bottom, in the middle, is rocky: there is, however, very good an- chorage near the Coronation Islerods; and there is also, possibly, as good on the eastern shore to the s?uth of C,?x*s PoNy, which has a,rocky island immediately off it, the situation of which is in latitude 14 � 20", and longi- tude 125 �25". At the bottom of York Sound is PRINCE FREDERIC'S HARBOUR, ?a fine spacious pert, fourteen miles long, and
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