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my opinion, fail of forming some good bays or har- 

 bours. 



The next considerable island is that of Mallicollo, 

 to the S. E. It extends N. W. and 8. E., and is 

 eighteen leagues long in that direction. Its greatest 

 breadth, which is at the S. E. end, is eight leagues. 

 The N. W. end is two-thirds this breadth ; and 

 nearer the middle, one-third. This contraction is 

 occasioned by a wide and pretty deep bay on the 

 S. W. side. To judge of this island from what we 

 saw of it, it must be very fertile and well inhabited. 

 The land on the sea-coast is rather low, and lies with 

 a gentle slope from the hills which are in the middle 

 of the island. Two-thirds of the N. E. coast was only 

 seen at a great distance ; therefore the delineations of 

 it on the chart can have no pretensions to accuracy ; 

 but the other parts, I apprehend, are without any 

 material errors. 



St. Bartholomew lies between the S. E. end of 

 Tierra del Espiritu Santo, and the north end of 

 Mallicollo ; and the distance between it and the latter 

 is eight miles. This is the passage through which 

 M. de Bougainville went ; and the middle of it is in 

 latitude 15° 48'. 



The Isle of Lepers lies between Espiritu Santo and 

 Aurora Island, eight leagues from the former, and 

 three from the latter, in latitude 15° 22', and nearly 

 under the same meridian as the S. E. end of Mal- 

 licollo. It is of an egg-like figure, very high, and 

 eighteen or twenty leagues in circuit. Its limits 

 were determined by several bearings ; but the lines 

 of the shore were traced out by guess, except the 

 N. E. part, where is anchorage half a mile from the 

 land. 



Aurora, Whitsuntide, Ambry m, Paoom, and its 

 neighbour Apee, Threehills, and Sandwich Islands, 

 lie all nearly under the meridian of I67 c 29' or 30' 

 East, extending from the latitude of 14° 5Y 30", 

 to 17° 53' 30". 



