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 COSSTS 0' ugra,LSS. 55 visit, but I take Malus Island to be that on which s he lainled, and the bluff, which he describes az the  . est end of the island, is no other than our Cour- tenay Head, for it is the only land of that cha- racter hereabouts, and is visible from the deck of a large ship, at the distance of seven leagues. In the bearing that Dampier saw it, namely, S.E,, our Rosemary Island would appear t be joindd to Malus Is!end, and hence his opinion, that it was "an island five or six leagues in length, and one in breadth." In one of his draughts, (No. 9,) he gives a view of the head, beating E.S.E., six leagues; and this bearing and distance, applied to our Courtermy Head, will cross the latitude of. 20 �1', which is that noted in he draught; and in the next draught, (No. 10,) when the head bears 8.E. by S., two black rooks are inserted, bearing $.E. by F,., and a point of land East: the black reeks readily answer to the two fiat rocks of my oh,,rt, and-the land about Gidley Island will bear East. No light can be thrown upon the subject from his drawino,s of the head-lands, since they are too mluute to be compared with nature. That the Montehello Islands are not the Eosemary Islands is evident, from thei-r being low, having no bluff head, and from their not being visible so far as Dampier sw those he, Digitized ' GOOc[e

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