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 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL ss. described. No other land can answer, 'as to 1i6. latitude, but Rosemary, Malus, Legendre, ' or Gidley Islands; but, on the two 'latter, there is no decided bluff, and when bearing S.E. by S., no land could be seen bearing East. Th rocks of Malus Island, on which'we landed, are "of a rusty colour, and ponderous %" and the bluff, as I have before remarked, very conspicuously forms the east end of the island. Dampier remarks, that Rosemary Island is two hundred and thirty-two miles east of the me* ridinn of Shark's Bay; this, applied to the longi- tude of that place, will make it in 117 �, which is only 35' east of my Courtenay Head. This group was named, by the French, Dam- pier's Archipelago, and as there is ample proof of its being the place which that navigator visited, the name has been admitted by us; but we have also extended it to the islands forming the ast side of Mermaid's strait, which are laid down by the French as a part of the main land. o,g,t,zeo by Goog[�
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