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the bank wants only a few little islets to make it exactly like 

 one of the half-drowned isles so often mentioned,' — namely, 

 atolls. South of Batoa lies the high island of Ono, which 

 appears in Bellinghausen's Atlas to be encircled ; as do some 

 other small islands to the south ; coloured pale blue : near 

 Ono, there is an annular reef, quite similar to the one just 

 described in the words of Captain Cook ; coloured dark blue. 



Eotoumah, 13° S., 179° E. — From the chart in Duperrey's 

 Atlas, I thought that this island was encircled, but the 

 Chevalier Dillon assures me that the reef is only a shore or 

 fringing one ; coloured red. 



Independence Island, 10° $., 179° E., is described by Mr. G. 

 Bennett (United Service Journ. 1831, part ii. p. 197) as a 

 low island of coral formation; it is small, and does not 

 appear to contain a lagoon, although an opening through 

 the reef is referred to. A lagoon probably once existed, and 

 has since been filled up ; left uncoloured. 



Ellice Group. — Oscar, Peyster, and Ellice Islands are 

 figured in Arrowsmith's Chart of the Pacific (corrected to 

 1832) as atolls, and are said to be very low ; blue. — Neder- 

 landisch Island: I am greatly indebted to the kindness of Admi- 

 ral Krusenstern, for sending me the original documents con- 

 cerning this island. From the plans given by Captains Eeg 

 and Khremtshenko, and from the detailed account given by 

 the former, it appears that it is a narrow coral-island, about 

 two miles long, containing a small lagoon. The sea is very 

 deep close to the shore, which is fronted by sharp coral-rocks. 

 Captain Eeg compares the lagoon with that of other coral- 

 islands ; and he distinctly says, the land is l very low.' I 

 have therefore coloured it blue. Admiral Krusenstern 

 (Memoir on the Pacific, Append. 1835) states that its 

 shores are 80 feet high ; this probably arose from the height 

 of the cocoa-nut trees, with which it is covered, being 

 mistaken for land. — Grand Cocal is said in Krusenstern's 

 Memoir to be low, and to be surrounded by a reef; it is 



