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characteristic shore vegetation along the narrow cultivated strip of the 

 island, while Plates 97 and 98 show the inland vegetation. 



We found rather distant coral patches growing in the lagoon in from 

 six to seven fathoms of water, close up to the inner edge of the outer 

 reef, starting from an underlying base of tertiaiy limestones, fragments 

 of which we brought up with the dredge. And upon the plane of the 

 outer rim of the lagoon, composed of the same tertiary limestones, corals 

 were growing to a depth of from six to ten fathoms, or more perhaps. 



"Wailangilala. 



Plates 18, 109, 110. 



The island of Wailangilala is somewhat triangular, and connected 

 by a spit of coral beach rock with the small island of Caliaudrovi to 



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by Cap. B. Cocks 



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WAILANGILALA 



the northeast. The east side of the larger island is about fifteen feet 

 above high water mark. Both islands are low, with sandy or beach rock 



