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15’ E., and 12° 30’ N.), is another high island, to the west of 
Wallis’s. It has encircling reefs, but we know nothing as to 
its changes of level. According to J. 8. Whitnell, Eilice’s 
Island, or Funafuti, situated in latitude 9° 8. and longitude 
179° E., has a small lagoon basin, dry at low water, which 
is shut off from the sea by a wall twenty feet high, consist- 
ing of large masses of coral. He regarded the facts as 
proof of some elevation. 
k. Kingsmill or Gilbert Group. (Map, p. 165.) 
Tapateuea or Drummond.—This is one of the southern 
islands of the group. The reef-rock, near the village of Utiroa, 
is a foot above low-tide level, and consists of large massive As- 
treas and Meandrinas. The tide in the Kingsmill seas is seven 
feet ; and consequently this evidence of a rise might be doubted, 
as some corals may grow to this height where the tide is so high. 
But these Astreas and Meandrinas, as far as observed by the 
writer, are not among the species that may undergo exposure 
at low tide, except it be to the amount of three or four inches ; 
and it is probable that an elevation of at least one foot has 
taken place. 
Apaiang or Charlotte's Island, one of the northernmost of 
the group, has the re¢f-rock in some parts raised bodily toa height 
of six or seven feet above low-water level, evidencing this 
amount of elevation. This elevated reef was observed for long 
distances between the several’ wooded islets ; it resembled the 
south reef of Nairsa in the Paumotu Archipelago in its bare, 
even top, and bluff, worn front. Anislet of the atoll, where we 
landed, was twelve feet high, and the coral reef*rock was five 
or six feet above middle tide. A wall of this rock, having the 
same height extends along the reef from the islet. ‘There was 
no doubt that it was due to an actual uplifting of the reef to a 
height of full scx feet. 
