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placed here. However, as we found none, having a muddy *7*°< 

 bottom, and good holding ground, in fixty fathoms water, 

 we kept fad till the return of the boat, which brought or- 

 ders to proceed the next morning to Prince's Ifland. We 

 were at this time two miles diftantfrom the fliorej the peak 

 of Cracatoa bore North Weft by North ; Bantam Point Eaft 

 North Eaft half Eaft ; Prince's Ifland South Weft by Weft. 



The ifland of Cracatoa is the Southernmoft of a group 

 fituated in the entrance of the Straits of Sunda. It has a 

 high peaked hill on the South end *, which lies in latitude 

 6° 9' South, and longitude 105 15' Eaft; the whole circuit 

 of the ifland is not more than three leagues. Off the North 

 Eaft end lies a fmall ifland, which forms the road where 

 the Refolution anchored ; and within a reef that runs off 

 the South end of the latter, there is good flielter againft all 

 Northerly winds, with eighteen fathoms water near the 

 reef, and twenty- feven in the mid-channel. To the North 

 Weft, there is a narrow pafs for boats between the two 

 iflands. 



The fliore, which forms the Weftern fide of the road, is 

 in a North Weft direction, and has a bank of coral ttretching 

 into the fea, about one third of a cable's length, which makes 

 the landing difficult for boats, except at high water ; but the 

 anchoring ground is very good, and free from rocks. The 

 place where the Refolution watered is a fmall fpring, fituated 

 abreaft of the South end of the fmall ifland, at a fliort 

 diftance from the water-fide. A little to the Southward, 

 there is a very hot fpring, which is ufed by the natives as a 



* The ifland of Tamarin, or Sambouricou, which lies about four leagues to the 

 North of Cracatoa, may be eafily miftaken for the latter, having a hill of nearly the 

 fame fize and form, fituated alfo near its Southern extremity. 



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