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reefs lying about ten miles east from the above men- 

 tioned head-land. The coast here again attained 

 a moderate height, and a round hill ten miles south 

 of Cape Direction, reached the height of 1250 

 feet ; its lat. being 13° S. is nearly five degrees and a 

 half north of where the Cordillera is 3500 feet high, 

 and 23^ degrees of where it attains its greatest 

 elevation, that of 6500 feet ; a fact which will at 

 once demonstrate the northerly tendency in the 

 dip of the chain of hills. This degree is further 

 illustrated by the height of Pudding-pan Hill in 

 1 i" 19' S. being only 384 feet. From the data given, 

 despite the limited number of our facts, it will be 

 seen that the dip becomes gradually more rapid as 

 you advance to the northward. 



S. E. from Cape Sidmouth the passage was much 

 contracted by a covered rock in the very centre 

 of the channel; this may be avoided by keeping 

 close to the W. side of island No. 6. Restoration 

 is a lofty rocky lump, terminating in a peak 

 360 feet high. A smaller islet of the same cha- 

 racter lies about half a mile off its S.E. side ; there 

 is also a remarkable peak on the shore, four miles 

 to the southward. This part of the coast is thus 

 rendered very conspicuous from seaward, and may 

 be discerned outside the Barrier reefs. Restoration 

 Island is a point of some interest from having been 

 first visited in 1789 by Captain Bligh, during his 

 extraordinary and unparalleled voyage in the Bounty 

 launch, from the Society Islands. The dangers and 



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