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Smyth does not recollect whether these islets, together with 

 the reef, surrounded a lagoon ; uncoloured. 



Sandwich Archipelago. — Hawaii : in the chart in Frey- 

 cinet's Atlas, small poitions of the coast are fringed by reefs; 

 and in the accompanying Hydrog. Memoir, reefs are mentioned 

 in several places, and the coral is said to injure the cables; but 

 Dana saw hardly any reefs here. On one side of the islet of 

 Kohaihai there is a bank of sand and coral with five feet 

 of water on it, running parallel to the shore, and leaving a 

 channel of about fifteen feet deep within. I have coloured 

 this island red, but it is very much less perfectly fringed than 

 others of the group. — Maui: in Freycinet's chart of the 

 anchorage of Eaheina, two or three miles of coast are seen to 

 be fringed; and in the Hydrog. Memoir 'banks of coral 

 along shore ' are spoken of. Mr. F. D. Bennett informs me 

 that the reefs, on an average, extend about a quarter of a 

 mile from the beach ; the land is not very steep, and out- 

 side the reefs the sea does not become suddenly deep ; 

 coloured red. — Morotoi, I presume, is fringed : Freycinet 

 speaks of the breakers extending along the shore at a little 

 distance from it. From the chart, I believe it is fringed ; 

 coloured red. — Oaliu : Freycinet, in his Hydrog. Memoir, 

 mentions some reefs. Mr. F. D. Bennett informs me that 

 the shore is skirted for forty or fifty miles in length. There 

 is even a harbour for ships formed by the reefs, but it is at 

 the mouth of a valley ; red. — Atooi, in La Peyrouse's charts, 

 is represented as fringed by a reef, in the same manner as 

 Oahu and Morotoi ; and this, I am informed by Mr. Ellis, 

 is of coral -formation on part at least of the shore : the 

 reef does not leave a deep channel within ; red. — Oneehow : 

 Mr. Ellis believes that this island is also fringed by a coral- 

 reef : considering its close proximity to the other islands, I 

 have ventured to colour it red. I have in vain consulted the 

 works of Cook, Vancouver, La Peyrouse, and Lisiansky, for 

 any satisfactory account of the small islands and reefs which 



