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 * oAra o1 Aus'rltA.tJA.  $xamination was found to com,nn_ n;cate with forms the north. west shore of the bay: this island ws  ar the le l.ht' HonMe. Chare !y of phnta (?'ZZ,,) that   prominent rank in the botany of this counWy. The strait, in which the tide was rnnnin at the rate of six or seven knots, was not more than one hundred and fifty yards wide; but/n one part it was con- fraeted to a much narrower compass, by , bed af �rocim that nearly extended across the strait, and which must originally have cc,nunicated with the opposite shore. �We landed under the ttat-tOpl b.m, at the south end of Greville Island, amon the man- grovea which skirt the shore, and. walked a few hundred yards round the point, to examine the course of the strait; but the way was so ruled, and we had so little time to spare, that we soon re-embarked, and returned int( Half-way Bay. �The eological. character of the island is a, red- coloured, coarse-gran-lr, siliceous sandston.e, disposed in, horizontal, strata, and, intersected by [eins. of cryst_ili.ed quartz. The surface is co- vered by a shallow, reddish-coloured soil pro- ducing a variety of shrubs d plants. After this. we cwss the. r/ver, al examined o,g,,,zed by Goog|�

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