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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