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one, wliicli lias a special claim upon our atteiitiou, and, as we 

 imagine, on Mr. DAiiwm''s also. It is named, //the Brill", 

 lies about fifty miles distant W. S. W. from the nearest 

 point of Celebes, and is thus described by Horsbukgh, in his 

 East India Navigation directory. //The Brill is about four miles 

 //in extent each way. It is very dangerous, being steep to (on 

 //the outside); with a fresh breeze and any considerable swell, 

 // there is a continued chain of brealcers round the verge of the 

 //shoal, but, within the breakers, the water is smooth and of 

 // a light green colonr ." Now to our mind (not to mention 

 our eyes, which have viewed it, all round), this appears to be, 

 // a circle of breakers without a single spot of land ," which 

 therefore whether //grand" or médiocre, may be fairly classed 

 with the one mentioned by Mr. Darwin, as discovered by cap- 

 tain Cook: in the South Pacific, and which the fermer has told 

 us that , // we may believe to have been a lagoon island recently 

 submerged". Will he also teil us , why we may not imagine this 

 also to be a lagoon island recently submerged.'' and if he cannot, 

 how he will reconcile ifs existence and description with his 

 assertion that the East Indian (Indonesian) Archipelago is rising, 

 whilst this is standing still, a lagoon reef, about the cen- 

 tral line of that (his) area of elevation.P We have farther to 

 ask him , if , under the denomination of // coral reefs which 

 merely skirt the shores," we are to include the coral isles, which 

 just barely elevated above the sea level, are in the offing from 

 the anchorages in the great bay of Kembang (N. Coast of Java) 

 and the chain of ditto, which commencing in Edam to N. E. 

 of Batavia Eoads (1) lies along the coast of Java to near the 

 Sunda Straits, leaving the proper navigable passage for ships to 

 and from Batavia, between them and that coast, whilst, close 

 to the middle length of the chain, are in their offing, the 

 southernmost isles of the grand group called, //the Thousand 

 Isles ," and ^-hence extending far out towards the N. E. of Su- 



(1) Edara has a lagoon oa it's cenlie , now nearly fiiled up by the re- 

 mains of the leaves of the surrounding trees blowQ into il. 



