1893.] D. Pram — Flora of Narcondam and Barren Island. 4c 



Table ~L.— Soundings in the vicinity of rTarcondam. — [Continued.) 



GENERAL DIRECTION OF 



DISTANCE IN MILES FROM 



DEPTH OF SOUNDINGS IN 



LINE OF SOUNDINGS. 



CENTRAL PEAK. 



FATHOMS. 



s. w. 



50 



1140 



W. N. W. 



1* 



162 



W. N. W. 



a* 



407 



W. N. W. 



3 



509 



W. N. W. 



3| 



585 



w. by s. 



40 



922 



N. N. E. 



2 



74 



N. N. E. 



H 



104 



N. N. E. 



H 



150 



N. N. E. 



4* 



411 



N. N. E. 



9* 



362 



N. N. E. 



16 



290 



N. N. E. 



52 



70 



N. N. E. 



70 



50 



The island is a fairly-regular oval with the longer diameter in a 

 line running north-north-east to south-south-west ; this diameter is 

 two and a half miles long, the other one and a half. The regularity 

 of outline is somewhat broken at the north-east corner by an oblong 

 peninsula about three furlongs long and half a mile across ; this spit, 

 which is occupied by a steep-sided twin-peaked hill, quite dwarfed 

 by the central mass, is in no sense detached from the rest of the island 

 but passes through two or three intervening heights into the main 

 peak. This peak, situated slightly to the south and west of the centre 

 of the island, is crowned by three small points of which tbe most 

 northern is tbe highest. The two others, situated a quarter of a mile 

 to the south and to the south-east, respectively, are at the seaward 

 ends of two ridges that diverge from the highest peak, and are 

 separated by the beginning of a deep gorge. The northern point, as 

 already mentioned, reaches 2330 feet ; the point to the south is 2150 ft., 

 that to the south-east 2200 feet high. The gorge that separates the 

 two latter, after passing southward between them for about a quarter 

 of a mile, turns south-west round the shoulder of the lower one, and 

 thus partially separates the south end of the island, as a narrow ridge 

 1200 to 1500 feet high, from the rest of the hill. It is, however, only 

 the western end of this ridge that is free, the eastern end is connected, 

 by means of a narrow but lofty ridge, with the south-eastern part of 

 the central peak. Numerous other gorges, none of them however so 

 striking as that just described, f urrow the hill on every side. 



