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 ffO APPENDIX. [C. A!on this -eastern line of shore, gTanite has been found throughout a space of nearly five hundred miks ;--t Cap, Cleveland; Cape Graftun ;--Endearour River;--Linrd ls!Md ;--end at Clack's Island, on the north-west of the rocky mass which forms Cape Melville. And rocks of the trap formation have been obtained in three detached points amoug the islands off the shore ;in the Percy Isles, about latitude 21 � ;--Sunday hhnd, north of C,pe Grenville, about latitude 12 �d in Oood's Island, on the north*west of Cape York, latitude 10 �. The Gulf of Carpentaria havin been fully examined by Captain Flirtdata, was not visited by Captain King; but the following account has been deduced from the voyage and charts of the former, combined with the specimens co!leeti by Mr. Brown, who has she hvoured me with an extract from the notes taken by himself on th IMUt of tho coast, The !and, on the east and south of the Gulf of Ctrpentsris, is so low, that for a space of needy 8iz hundred milee,.-- frn Endeavour Strait tu a rane of hills on the msiahad, vest of Wellesley Islands, at the bottom of the pert of the coast is higher than a ship's most-beret *. Some of the land in Wellesley islands is higher than the main; but the lureeat island is, probably, not more than one hun- dred and fif feet in beibt t; and !ow-wcoded hills occur on the mainland, from thence tu Sir Edward Pellew's --The rock observed on the shore at Coen River, the only point ou the etern side of the Gulf where Captain Flirttiers landed, was calcareous sandstone of recent 'concretionul formation. In Sweer's lshnd, sue of Welleslay's Isles, a hill of �F!Jnders' Chrts, Plate XIV'.  F!inders, Vol. fl., p. 158.

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