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Cook or Harvey and Austral Islands. — P aimer ston Island 

 is minutely described as an atoll by Captain Cook during bis 

 voyage in 1774; it is coloured blue. Aitutaki was partially 

 surveyed by the Beagle (see map accompanying Voyages of 

 Adventure and Beagle) ; the land is billy, sloping gently to the 

 beach ; the highest point is 360 feet ; on the southern side, 

 the reef projects five miles from the land : off this point the 

 Beagle found no bottom with 270 fathoms : the reef is sur- 

 mounted by many low coral- islets. I am informed by the 

 Rev. J. Williams, that within the reef the water is exceed- 

 ingly shallow, not being more than a few feet deep ; never- 

 theless, from the great extension of the reef into a profoundly 

 deep ocean, this island probably belongs, on the principle 

 lately adverted to, to the barrier class, and I have coloured it 

 pale blue, although with much hesitation. — Manouai ox Harvey 

 Island : the highest point is about 50 feet : the Rev. J. Wil- 

 liams informs me that although the reef lies far from the shore, 

 it is less distant than at Aitutaki, but the water within the reef 

 is rather deeper : I have likewise coloured this island pale 

 blue, but with many doubts. — Round Mitiaro Island, as I am 

 informed by Mr. Williams, the reef is attached to the shore ; 

 coloured red. — MauJci, or Maouti : the reef round this island 

 (under the name of Parry Island in the Voyage of H.M.S. 

 Blonde, p. 209) is described as a coral flat, only 50 yards 

 wide, and two feet under water. This statement has been 

 corroborated by Mr. Williams, who calls the reef attached ; 

 coloured red. — Atiu, or Wateeo : a moderately elevated, hilly 

 island, like the others of the group ; the reef is described in 

 Cook's Voyage as attached to the shore, and about 100 yards 

 wide; coloured red. — Fenoua-iti: Cook describes this island as 

 very low, not more than six or seven feet in height (vol. i. 

 book ii. chap. iii. 1777) ; in the chart published in the Co- 

 quilWs atlas, a reef is engraved close to the shore: this island 

 is not mentioned in the list given by Mr. Williams (p. 16) in 

 the Narrative of Missionary Enterprise ; nature doubtful ; but 



