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 G)LOeY.] NATURAL HISTORY. near that Point, the rugged stony clips are succeeded by long tract, which to the French voyagers (for it was examined by Captain King,) appeared to consist of low and sandy !and, fronted by extensive shoals. It has hi- therto beee seen, however, only at a distance; so that a space of more than three hundred miles, from Point theaurae nearly to Cape Lambert, still remains to be accu- rately surveyed. !)epuch Island, east of Dampier's Archipelago, about la- titude 0 �, is deocn'bed by the French naturalists as eonslsting in a gat measure of columnar rocks, which they supposed to be tcc; and they found reason to believe that the adjoining continent was of* the same materials o. It is not improbable, however, that this term was applied to columns belonging to the trap format/on, since no burning mountain has been any where observed on the coast of New Holland :--nor do the drawings of Depuch Island, made on board Captain King's vessel,.give reason to suppose that it is at present eruptive. Caltain King's specimens from Malus Island, in Dampier's. Archipelago, (sixty miles farther we. st) consist of green-stone and amygdaloid. The coast is again broken and rud about Dampiers' Archipelago, latitude 50 �; and on the south of Cape Preston, in latitude 1 � an opening of about tilden miles in width, letween rocky hills, which has not been ex- plored. From thence to the bottom of Exmouth (ulf;more than one hundred and fifty miles, the coast is 15w and sandy, and does not exhibit any prominences. The west coast of F. xmouth Gulf itself is formed by a promontory of level' !and, tefminat/ng in the North*west Cape; and from thence to the 2PS
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