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 APPENDIX. [C. south.west, u far as Cape Cuvier, the general height of the e(mst is from four to five hundred feet; uor are any moun- tnins visible over the coast range. Several portions of the shore between Shark's Bay and Cape NaturaJiste have been described in the .account of Commodore Baudin's Expedition; but some parts still remain to be surveyed. From the specimens collected by Captain King and the French descriptions, it appears that the islands on the west of $hark's Bay abound in a concretionel calcareous rock of very recent formation, similar to what is found on the shore in several other parts.of New ttolland, especially in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound ;--and which is abuur dact also on the coast of the West Indian Islands, and of the Mediterranean. Captain King's specimens of this pro- duction are from Dirk Hartog's and Itottnest Islands; and M. Pron states that the .upper parts of Bernier and Dorre Islands are composed of a rock of the same nature. This part of the coast is covered in various places with ex- tensive dunes of sand; but the nature of the base, on which both these and the calcareous formation repose, has not been ascertained. The general direction of the rocky shore, from North-west Cape to Dirk Harto's Island, is from the east of north to the west of south. On the south of the latter place the land tums towards the east. High, rocky and reddish cli have been seen indistinctly about latitude 97�d a coast of the same aspect has been surveyed, from t%ed Point, about latitude '28 �or more than eighty miles to the south*west. The hills called Moresby's flat*topped Range, of which Mount Faiax, latitude 28 �, is the highest point, occupy a space of more than fifty miles from north to south. lttnest Island and its .vicinity, latitude 3'2 �ntains in

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