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 COAS?S OS' ,ugr .ass.  .from. the destructive effects of recent Wes, and springing up in great.luxuriance. In our ascent ,p*, l. we passed through several deep gullies, which bore the marks of haying once yielded abundance Of water, but were now quite dried up. The next day Mr. Cunningham accompanied me on an excursion round Adolp .hus taldng from the anchorage an easterly direction; and passing to the north of the two islands. On the eastern side of Adolphus Island, .we landed on one of two rocky islets, and took some bearings from its snmmit. It is composed , of loose blocks of decomposed sand-stone. On ,. ... the summit we observed a large hawk's nest, but it was deserted bY its constructor. The only plants that were found Ulmn'this rock were a prickly caF/r9 and a leafless J/cus, the lat- ter bearing clusters of small, whitish, fruit :.'tee plats, with'a smal! hib/c, were ' the chief productions of the rock; and have .pro- bably been produced from seeds deposited there by birds. On leaving these rocks, I hoped to have ' reached in time some part of the north-east shore of Adolphus Island, where I could serve the sun's meridional altitude on the sea horizon, but we were detained in the arm by strong rippl/ngs and a fresh sea-breeze, until it

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