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? APPENDIX. �&. 'shoal lagoon; it is entirely of coral, and has abundan ce of .Sect. 11. shell-fish; it was here that Captain Cook procured turt!?

3L Fast during his stay at Endearour River, from the entrance of

C.n?t. which it bears N. 7b � and is distant eleven miles; its south end is separated from e by a channel of a mile wide. THREE ISLES, in latitude 15 �30*, is a group of low �'coral islets covered with shrubs, and encircled by a reef,

that is not quite two miles in diameter.

, Two miles and three quarters to the N.W. is a low wooded "island, -,bout a mile long,, also surrounded by a red; and four miles to the southward of it is a rocky islet. gz.r f is about four or ive miles E.S.F? from Three Idea; �.it appeared to be about three miles long: its western ex- 'treme is in latitude 15 �, and in longitude 145 �. TWO ISLES are also low and wooded, and surrovnded by a reef: the largest islet is in latitude 15 �20', and ,longitude 145 � 10.. Rzzr g appeared to ha about a mile broad and two miles and a half long: its south end is in latitude 15 �15", longitude 145 � 45". Rz?-g h is an extensive reef, having high breakers on its

outer edge
' it is more than four miles long, 'and separated

-from the north end of g 5y a chq?ne! n mile wide, Rgsv i has ?everal detached reefs about it, on the north- emmo?t are two rocky islands, and to the southward, (m a detached shoal, there .is n, bare sandy h]et that is pet= haps occasionall,y co. ve.red b,y the tide:. ?ts south-w?rn-