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(lefcribed in the fame volume, p. 129. tab. 40. Rumphius alfb 

 fpeaks of the Lacerta chakidica as a very dangerous fpecies of 

 lizard. This poflibly is the Aiiguis quadrupedes of authors, and 

 the Seps of M. La Cepede^ i. 433. tab. 31, which is found injava 

 and Amboina. 



As to fillies and iliells they are extremely numerous ; the firft Fishes. 

 very fingular in their forms ; the laft of great beauty. 



The large ifland oiGUoJo or Halamahera is not clafTed among Gilolo- 

 the Moluccas^ but lies nearly contiguous to them, and extends 

 north and fouth from Lat. 3° lo' north, to Lat. 0° 50' fouth. The 

 equator paffes over the lower part. The weftern fide is (traight, 

 and runs parallel with thofe iflands, and at the fouthern end 

 finiflies oppofite to Batcbia?2, but at the northern extends very 

 far beyond "Ternate. On the eaft fide is a branch that points 

 due eaft, and from the bafe of that another, due north, leaving 

 between it and the weftern extent of the illand, a bay extremely 

 narrow, but of a vaft length, penetrating above half of the 

 length of the whole. Dampier'--' reckons this among the low 

 iflands of the Indian feas ; yet in the interior parts it rifes into 

 very lofty horns or peaks. 



It is faid to have been once governed by one fovereign, a Scberif 

 from Mecca. We have mentioned that the Sultans of 'Ternate 

 and Tidory now are mafters of a coniiderable part of Gilolo ; the 

 chief towns are Maba^ Wtda^ and Fataiiay. The laft is at the 

 extremity of the eaftern i^ranch ; it ftands on what is called 

 Tat any Kook, a point in Lat. 0° 20' north, three miles in circum- ?,\tav\ Hook. 



* Voy. i. 425. 



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