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Island (Ilha dos Batos), about a mile long, the most easterly of 

 the group. Next to it, and apparently comparatively recently 

 separated from it, is Ilha do 



Meio 



d. Then 

 Michael's 



Mount 



between that and the main island is a low, flat, coral-reef island 



Ilha Eaza, or Egg Island, 



like that of Ilha 



Meio 



a little north of which are a few rocks forming a connexion 

 with San Jose, or Platform Island, on which are the remains of 

 a fort. On the south of the main island lie, at intervals, several 

 rocky islets almost entirely barren of vegetation; and on the 











are 



Dois Irmaos. 





























Mat Island is a basaltic island of some size, the eastern end of 

 which terminates in lofty crags, the haunt of numerous sea-fowl. 

 The cliffs are lower on the north and south-eastern sides, and the 

 ground slopes away to the west, where the basalt is overlaid by a 

 considerable deposit of coral-reef, which, again, is covered with a 

 layer of guano. At one point on the south-east corner the 

 waves have eroded the reef so as to form a blowhole through 

 which the spray rushes with great violence, so that the fountain 

 can be seen at a distance of live or six miles. Bound this 





green 



thick growth 



3und Sesuvium distylum, n. sp., forming 

 patches. The guano-ground was covered with a 

 : Ipomoea Batatas, I. pentapJiylla, Phyllanthus, 

 Momordica Charantia, JPhaseolus lunatus* JRicinus communis. 

 Further inland the chief vegetation consisted of Scoparia 

 dulcis, Cyperus ligularis, C. brunneus, ^Eschynomene hii 





while on the cliffs were 



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&c. 



btusifolia 















The only plants found here, and nowhere else in the island, 

 were Scoparia purpurea, n. sp., Sesuvium distylum, Cenchrus 

 viridis. 



Owing probably to want of shelter from the winds there are 

 no trees on the island, the Fig, Ficus Noronhce, being reduced 

 to a large shrub. There were a considerable number of weeds 

 introduced by man, due partly to the settlement of Cant. Roma 



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* Most of the names on the Admiralty chart given by the French and English 

 expeditions sent to the island are utterly unknown to the inhabitants of the 

 island, whose nomenclature I have preferred in this report. 



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