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150 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
two rocks named by the natives Sandy, or Zonda, are of 
slate ; that named Oscar, by Maxwell, has a very large tree 
upon it, the other only brush wood ; they are separated 
by a space of about 50 yards. On the north shore, nearly 
opposite these rocks, is a hanging precipice, to which may 
be given the name of Lover’s Leap, though in a sense dif- 
ferent from that of Leucadia, this being the place of 
execution of the adulterous wives of the king of Bomma, 
and their paramours, who are precipitated from the summit 
into the river. 
The rocks to which Maxwell has given the little appro- 
priate name of Scylla, lie close to the north shore, and form 
two masses of slate above water; about 20 yards beyond 
them the rippling denotes another mass under water, but 
on which there is six fathoms depth. 
At seven o’clock the breeze failing, we anchored on the 
east entrance of the creek off the Gombac islands, close to 
the grass, in six fathoms. 
Aug. 7. In the morning, it being calm, I went in the gig 
through the creek of Gombac, and found, though extreme- 
ly narrow, that it had a depth of five to ten fathoms. There 
are but two islands, the separation marked by Maxwell be- 
tween the two western ones being only a cove; they are 
mere rocks of slate with a good many trees. From them I 
