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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL ?s?s. described. No other land can answer, 'as to ?1i6. latitude, but Rosemary, Malus, Legendre, ' or Gidley Islands; but, on the two 'latter, there is no decided bluff, and when bearing S.E. by S., no land could be seen bearing East. Th? rocks of Malus Island, on which'we landed, are "of a rusty colour, and ponderous %" and the bluff, as I have before remarked, very conspicuously forms the east end of the island. Dampier remarks, that Rosemary Island is two hundred and thirty-two miles east of the me* ridinn of Shark's Bay; this, applied to the longi- tude of that place, will make it in 117 �, which is only 35' east of my Courtenay Head. This group was named, by the French, Dam- pier's Archipelago, and as there is ample proof of its being the place which that navigator visited, the name has been admitted by us; but we have also extended it to the islands forming the ?ast side of Mermaid's strait, which are laid down by the French as a part of the main land.

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