OF LA PEROUSE. 4H 



and longitude 113 38' 56" call, the ncarcft 

 coaft bore north-weft, diflant one myriametcr, 

 and we at the fame time law land from well 15 

 fouth to eaft 40! fouth. 



"The mountains began to form a, pretty regu- 

 lar chain, the higheft not appearing to be mow; 

 than four hundred meters peqDendicular. We 

 remarked on them large fpots entirely defiitute 

 of verdure ; in other places were weak fhrul>s 

 thinly flrewn, in the midll of which wo law a 

 very imall number of trees of a middling height* 

 The mountains fometimes exhibited themfelvcs 

 in feveral rows, riling by degrees one above the 

 other. 



At four o'clock in the afternoon we difcovered 

 fome breakers at a fmall diftance from the Coaft, 

 and a little beyond them to the eaft ward, two 

 rocks a kilometer from the fhore, and which we 

 paffed very clofe. The largeft. was remarkable 

 for a feparation in its middle, whence rofe per- 

 pendicularly, about fifty meters above the level 

 of the lea, an infulated piece prefenting the form 

 of a very flat wave ; I took it for fand-ilone, and 

 the rock which ferved as its bafe was of the fame 

 nature. We admired the fine eftec'l of the fea, 

 which, impelled by violence, ailumed, in riling 

 to the very lummit of this rock, a perfectly white 

 colour, and again teVt in a fheet to mew this lin- 

 gular 



