94 THE CORAL REEFS OE THE MALDIVES. 



original islands form knobs at the extremities of the single somewhat dumb- 

 bell-shaped island. The outer edge of the southern reef rim flat is bordered 

 by small boulders, and the eastern face of the island is flanked by shingle 

 beaches and boulders. 



The outer belt of the rim of the large pear-shaped faro to the north of 

 Muradu is, with the exception of a belt of large boulders on the northern face 

 of the ring, covered with patches of flourishing corals. The northern rim 

 reef flat of the faro slopes into deeper water than the shallower southern 

 rim. There is no well-marked pass into the central lagoon. 



The next faro to the north is elliptical, with a wide opening leading from 

 the east into the central lagoon ; this is bounded by a wide reef flat rim 

 on the southern face. On the horn of the southern rim flat a few large 

 boulders stand as sentinels at the entrance, with heaps of shingle on the 

 northern rim ; the opening of the pass is flanked by isolated boulders, and 

 to the westward, on the northern face, the faro is bordered by a long reach 

 of large boulders. A small sand bank has been thrown up on the inner 

 face of the northern rim near the pass ; this is not shown on the chart. 



Muadu is a faro to the northeast of the last, dividing the eastern 

 entrance of the wide and deep pass between it and Naguri into a northern 

 and southern channel. The eastern end of Muadu is occupied by a long 

 triangular island, which has thrown out along the northern rim a sand spit 

 covered with low bushes. A similar coral sand spit extends along the 

 southern face of the faro enclosing in part a wide bay ; these spits enclose 

 the greater part of the lagoon of the faro. From the northwestern corner 

 of the island a coral sand spit forms the western boundary of a wide 

 bay open to the north. The southern face of the faro is bordered by a 

 belt of boulders and the eastern face of the island is flanked by steep, 

 coarse coral shingle beaches. 



Naguri (Pis. 46, fig. 2; 47) is a large faro nearly three miles in diameter 

 with a large island extending towards the central part of the lagoon, club- 

 shaped at the western extremity and T-shaped at the eastern. The south- 

 ern rim flat is flanked by a low wall of shingle and large angular undercut 

 boulders, all greatly weathered and separated from the beaches of the island 

 by a shallow reef flat. The club-shaped and the T-shaped parts of the 



