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forms a broad peninsula, whose point is slightly curved 

 towards west. Flinders Island, the Sisters, Bad,^er, 

 Barren, and Clark islands are connected with Tasnia.nia. 

 A fjord cuts deeply into the southern part of this penin- 

 sula. The north coast has only slightly increased. 



In the north-west corner, Hunter's, Three Hummock, 

 and Robins' Islands are connected with the mainland, 

 but we observe that this peninsula reaches much less 

 towards north than the eastern one. 



The east coast of King Island sends out a curious two- 

 pronged peninsula, while the west coast shows hardly 

 any changes. 



The Australian coast is not nuich altered in the 

 south, but in the east it has considerably grown. 



(cj THE 25-FATHOM LINE. 

 (PL. I., FIG. 2.) 



A further receding of 5 fathoms produces the fol- 

 lowing changes: — The eastern peninsula has become 

 much broader, and has particularly grown on its western 

 shore. The deep channel in the south has disappeared, 

 and all rocks and islands between Tasmania and Aus- 

 tralia have considerably grown in size, in particular the 

 Kent Group. 



The north-west corner of Tasmania sends out a long, 

 narrow peninsula running straight towards north, and a 

 somewhat shorter one in north-western direction, by 

 which the Pdack Pyramid and the Reid rocks are joined 

 to Tasmania. 



King Island continues to increase in size in eastern 

 direction, and in a similar way as Tasmania it sends a 

 long, rather broad peninsula towards north. King Island 

 and Tasmania are now separated by a very narrow strait 

 of not more than 30 feet in depth. 



The changes of the Australian coast and the north 

 coast of Tasmania are insignificant. 



