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 APPENDIX. [C. from Cape Howe, about lat. 37 �o Cape Byron, lat. 29 �r even to Sandy Cape, lat 25 �d of the western coast, from the south of the islands which enclose Shark's Bay, lat. 26 �to North-west Cape, about lat. 22�rom Cape Hamelin, !at. 34 �, to Cape Naturallate, lat. 33 �, the coast runs nearly on the meridian. The two great fissures of the south coast, Spencer's, and St. Vincent's Gulfs, as well as the great northern chasm of the Gulf of Carpentaria, hae a corresponding direction; and Captain Flirttiers (Chart 4,) represents a high ridge of rocky and barren mountains, on the east of Spancat's Gulf, as continued, nearly from north to south, through a space of more than one hundred geogra* phieal miles, between .latitude 32 �and 34�unt Brown, one of the summits of this ridge, about lat. 32 �, being visible at the distance of twenty leagues. The tendency of all this evidence is somewhat in favour of a general parallelism in the range of the strata,--and per- haps of the existence of primary ranges of mountains on the east of Australia in general, from the coast about Cape Wey- mouth* to the shore between Spancat's Gulf and Cape Howe. But it must not be forgotten, that the distance between these shores is more than a thousand miles in a direct line ;--about as far as from the west coast of Ireland to the Adriatic, or �The possible correspondence of the great luttralian BigAt, the coast of which in general is of no great elevation, with the deeply-iadsnted Gulf of Carpentaria,--tending, as it were, to a division of this great idand into two, accords with this hypothesis of mountain ranges: but the distance between these recesses, over the land at the nearest points, is not less than a thousand English milea.--The granite, on the south coast, at lnveatigator's Islands, ,t-and westward, at Middle Island, Cape Le Gran d, King Oeor's Sound, and Cape lqaturaliste. is very wide of the line above- mentioned, and nOthing is yet knatwn of its relations.

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