274 TOOLYAN. [1845. 



presented to Dalrymple, by the Sultan Alimudin, is situ- 

 ated in the North-eastern Bay, and is described by the 

 former as follows : 



" Toolyan is high land. The hills form an amphitheatre 

 with a large valley in the middle, to which two or three 

 brooks between the hills form a passage, particularly on 

 the south part, where there is a large plain between the 

 Peak Hill and the Green Ridge covered with woods ; the 

 island is not, at present, inhabited, but formerly it was, 

 and had then many cattle, cocoa-nut, and other fruit- 

 trees, which were destroyed by the Spaniards in their last 

 expedition against Sooloo. 



"The woods are not in general large towards the 

 shore ; they are of various kinds, and many of them good 

 timber. The Alexandrian Laurel is common enough, and 

 by much the largest I have seen, one of them, growing 

 on the shore, being above two fathoms in circumference. 

 There are several Foot trees on the island ; the leaves are 

 dark green, pretty large, and high ribbed. The Dammer 

 is in general as white as milk, and has the consistency, 

 and somewhat of the smell, of turpentine, it seems to 

 ooze entirely from the bark. 



" The shore is, in some places, so steep, that a large 

 ship may careen by it, but the island is but ill supplied 

 with water. The bay is very commodious, and secure 

 for a few ships." 



None of the other islands immediately connected with 

 Sooloo, appear to be deserving of particular notice. Ta- 

 wee-Tawee is termed a small, low, woody island, belonging 

 to the Sooloo Group, but the Tawee-Tawee Group, situ- 

 ated on the east of Unsang, is described as a group con- 



