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characteristic shore vegetation along the narrow cultivated strip of the 
island, while Plates 97 and 98 show the inland vegetation. 
We found rather distant coral patches growing in the lagoon in from 
six to seven fathoms of water, close up to the inner edge of the outer 
reef, starting from an underlying base of tertiary limestones, fragments 
of which we brought up with the dredge. And upon the plane of the 
outer rim of the lagoon, composed of the same tertiary limestones, corals 
were growing to a depth of from six to ten fathoms, or more perhaps. 
Wailangilala. 
Plates 18, 109, 110. 
The island of Wailangilala is somewhat triangular, and connected 
by a spit of coral beach rock with the small island of Cakandrovi to 
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the northeast. The east side of the larger island is about fifteen feet 
above high water mark. Both islands are low, with sandy or beach rock 
