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  SUREY OF THE IN'rERTROPICAL ss. The only edible fruit that we found was a small . ' black grape: it bore a very inferior resemblance to the common sweet-water grape, but the leaf and habit are altogether different. The centre of the bay is formed by  sandy beach; it is terminated by cliffs of about forty feet in height, the upper ,stratum of which ap- peared to be an indurated clay of a very red co- 'lout, occasioned by the ferruginous nature of the rocks and soil; the lower part is a stratum of the whitest pipe-clay, the upper limit of which, from the surface having been washed clean by the late rains, was so defined, and produced so striking a contrast in point of colour, as to give tho whole  most remarkable appearance. At the distance of ten miles behind the beach of the main land, which is very low, there is a continued ridge of rocky hills, which was named Wellington Range, and behind them is the Tot, a remarkable rock,' that stands alone. The range is about twenty-five miles in extent, and its summit has a very irregular outline; it is visible for eight or nine leagues. is. The morning after our arrival a base line was measured upon the beach for the survey of the bay, and whilst we were thus employed our people found and brought to me several traces of Malays, who, as we are informed by Capusin Flinders,

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