Our cable hooked a rock, fortunately however it was rotten, and broke away, so that the cable, being a chain was not damaged.
The islands of DAMPIER'S ARCHIPELAGO, are of high rocky character, and very different from either the coast or the islands in their vicinity.

It consists of about twenty islands, besides smaller ones, scattered over a space of forty miles in extent: Delambre is the easternmost island, and a small sandy island to the South-West of Enderby Island is the westernmost.
GIDLEY ISLAND, and two others to the eastward, extend in a north and south direction; they are high and rocky.

The west shore of Gidley Island appeared to be fronted by a continuous reef, on which some patches of dry rocks were observed.

Gidley Island is separated from Legendre Island by a very shoal and rocky strait, apparently impassable for anything larger than boats.

It has several small sandy islets scattered about it, and at low water the greater part is dry.