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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



tion 



* 



Now, at Palmerflon ifland 



prebends nine or ten low iflots, that may be 

 reckoned the heads of a great reef ( 

 rock, Captain Cook informs us of his 



f 



al 



fee 



ti 



far beyond the reach of th 



having 



fe 



e- 

 co- 



ven in the moll violent ftorms, elevated 

 ral rocks, which, on examination, appeared to 



in the fame manner that 

 the rocks are that now compofe the outer edge 



have been perforated 



of th 



ree 



f. 



Th 



dently fliews," h 



dd 



the fea had formerly reached fo far 



d 



Tome 



f thefe perforated rocks 



almofl 



f ■ 



the centre of ^he ifland f." 



The fame excellent navigator, giving an ac- 

 count of the peninfula at Cape Denbigh, re- 



: " It appeared to me, that this peninfula 



marks 



ft have been an ifland in 



times 



for 



there were marks of the fea having flowed over 



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the ifthmus." 



401. We are here touching on one of thofe fub- 

 je^ls, where we feel much the want of accurate 

 and ancient obfervations, and where it is not from 

 the infancy, but the maturity of fcience that any 



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thing approaching to certainty can be looked 



The utmoft that we can exped: at prefent. 



for. 



IS 



* A very curious account of the formation of fuch 



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iflands is given by A. Dalrymple Efq^; in the Philofo- 

 phical Tranfa6lions, vol. Ivii. p. 394. 

 t Cook's Third Voyage, vol. i. p. 221. 



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