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The particular places which Mr. Bcalo mentions as its favourite resorts are the following : 

 viz. on the north coast of New Guinea from 140^ to 146^ east longitude; New Ireland from Cape 

 St. George to Cape St. Mary ; from Squally Island to the northwards ; from St. George's Channel 

 to the southward ; on the east coast of New Britain ; about the islands of Bougain\-ille and Bouka 

 Bay, particularly off the northern shore of Bougainville as far as the Green or Bentley's Islands ; 

 Solomon's Archipelago, as far to the northward as Howe's group ; Malanta, along the north- 

 east and south-west parts ; and in the Straits as far to the north as Gower's Island ; and off the 

 west points of New Hanover ; off anj' part of King's Mill group, but more particularly off the south- 

 west parts of Roach's Island distant from the land thirty or forty miles ; and off the south-west 

 portion of Byron's Island on the equinoctial line from the longitude of 168° to 175° east longi- 

 tude. About three or four miles off the south side both of Ellis' group and Mitchell's group ; about 

 fifteen to thirty miles off the south-cast side of Rotumah ; off the eastern coast of New Holland 

 from 2o° to 34° south latitude, and along the north-west coast ; from the East Cape to North Cape 

 of New Zealand, the land dipping; and off the shore to the north-eastward as far as Curtis's 

 Island ; off Middleburgh Island and adjacent Isles of Tongataboo ; off the south-west side of 

 Tootooillah, at the Navigator Islands ; and from Fenning's to Christmas Island ; off the north point 

 of Moratay, one of the Moluccas ; and off the east and west sides of Gilolo and the adjacent Isles ; off 

 the east side of Bonton and in the Straits of Timor ; off the south side of Omby, Panton, 

 and the adjacent islands as far as Sandalwood Island to Java Head ; and off the shore in latitude 

 12° to 1G° south, and longitude from 112° to 120^ ; off the eastern side of ilahee Island ; off Johanna 

 Island, in the Mozambique Channel ; off the Island of Aldabra ; off the Cape of St. Mary's, Madagas- 

 car ; in the Persian Gidf and Red Sea, on the line from 55° to 60° west longitude ; in the China 

 Sea ; all round the Benin Islands within forty miles of them ; along the coast of Japan, Volcano 

 Bay, Loo Choo Islands ; off shore ground of Japan from 28° to 40° north latitude ; off Cape St. 

 Lucas, and off the Tres Marias Island, on the Californian coast ; off the shore of Peru, from longitude 

 west 90° to 130°, in latitude 5° south, to the line. The coast of Peru from the line to 16° south 

 off Paita Head used to be very famous, but from Mr. Beale saj-ing " used to be," it is to be implied 

 that it is or was then no longer so. At the Galapagos Islands, off the south head of Albemarle 

 Island, Weather and Lee bays, or Elizabeth's and Banks' bays ; on the middleground between the 

 Continent and the Galapagos Islands ; off the Island of Chiloe to the northward along the coast 

 of Chili, and as far south as 37°, the land dipping. 



They are also occasionallj^ seen about the equinoctial line in the Atlantic Ocean, but these 

 would rather seem to be cither straggling " schools " which have rounded Cape Horn (they have 

 never been known to double the Cape of Good Hope),* or unprospering colonics, for thej' are 

 becoming scarcer and scarcer in more than their due proportion. It is from those that the specimens 

 which have occasionally been met with in the North Atlantic, or in the English seas, have wan- 

 dered. They have been now and then cast ashore, and then they are usually in an emaciated 

 condition. They seem to be unprepared for, or not to be adapted for, shallow seas. Accustomed 

 (perhaps not individually, but bj' hereditary practice or instinct) to swim along the Coral islands 

 of the Pacific within a stone's throw from the shore, they cannot understand, their instinct is not 

 prepared to meet, shallow coasts and projecting headlands. If Ihey were habitual residents in our 

 seas, they must either be speedily extirpated, learn more caution, or be developed into a new species. 



* Madry's "Physical Geography of the Sea."' 



