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 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICS s. hundred to one hundred and fif feet high, ,,D. 25, here and there sprinlded with shrubs, but in many parts quite bare: behind this frontier a second l'ne of hilh was occasionally seen, on which the trees appeared to be of moderate size: the shore is rocky for two miles off, and in many parts the sea broke. At half-past three. o'clock we were abreast of.a low, sandy. projection, supposed to be Captain Baudin's Cape Les- chenault. The appearance of the coast to the northward of this cape differed from what .we passed in the morning, in that the coast hi!ocks are more bare of vegetation; there. appeared to be several ridges behind the coast" dunes," but they were all equally unproductive, of vegetation. Lancelin Island was not distinctly made out, but the two small rocky lumps on the bare sand-hills, that M. de Freycinet mentions, were seen and thought to be very remarkable. At seven o'clock, having reached in my plan the latitude 31 �30" and longitude 115 �0", we hauled off shore for le. the night, and at six o'clock a.m., stood towards the land again. At half-past ten o'clock we were. so near to it as to see the beach:. at noon, the latitude was observed to be 30 � 13", its lon. gitude being 114 � 45", at which time we were on the parallel of the two rocky lumps seen the last evening. Hence we steered north:

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