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THE CORAL REEFS OF THE MALDIVES. 



depth. The northern rim, according to the chart, is a very irregular 

 narrow belt awash here and there with a secondary lagoon at the northern 

 spit of this rim. 



The changes at Turadu from the conditions marked on the Admiralty 

 Chart are, as stated by Gardiner, very marked^ and were also noted by us 

 at the time we passed by Dunikolu and anchored near Embudu, but I 

 cannot agree with Mr. Gardiner that the extensive changes observed there 

 are wholly due to solution.^ The cyclone by which the island was struck 

 would account for the movement of a great mass of sand such as perhaps 

 formed the northern rim of Turadu in 1836. 



Boats from Turadu. 



To the northeast of Turadu rises Dunikolu, a small island with a low 

 coral sand beach and covered with a scanty vegetation. Near our anchor- 

 age stretched another, smaller faro (Velengeli), a little over a mile in 

 diameter, with an island on its western rim having somewhat the character 

 of an outer island. The wide rim of this faro enclosed a shallow lagoon 

 the great part of which had been filled up. 



The little island of Embudu (Pis. 26, 27) to the north of our anchorage 

 is covered by a scanty vegetation ; it is surrounded by a narrow reef fiat 

 and is flanked by steep almost vertical beaches of fine coral sand. At their 



' Loc. cil., fig. 94, p. 380. 



2 Gardiner states (^loc. cit , p. 386) that in the northeast part of South Malos there seemed to 

 be little change within the lagoon. 



