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Kock, an active volcano, someway south of the group (of which 

 a plan is given in Atlas of the Astrolabe's Voyage) does not 

 appear to have reefs of any kind about it. — Annatom, the 

 southernmost of the Hebrides : from a rough woodcut given 

 in the United Service Journal (1831, part iii. p. 190), accom- 

 panying a paper by Mr. Bennett, it appears that the shore is 

 fringed ; coloured red. — Tanna : Forster, in his Observations 

 (p. 22), says Tanna has on its shores coral-rock and madre- 

 pores ; and the younger Forster, in his account (vol. ii. p. 269), 

 speaking of the harbour, says the whole S.E. side consists of 

 coral-reefs, which are overflowed at high water : part of the 

 southern shore in Cook's chart is represented as fringed ; 

 coloured red. — Immer is described (United Service Journ. 

 1831, part iii. p. 192) by Mr. Bennett as being of moderate 

 elevation, with cliffs appearing like sandstone ; coral grows in 

 patches on its shore, but I have not coloured it ; and I mention 

 these facts because Immer might have been thought, from 

 Forster's classification (Observations, p. 14), to have been a 

 low island, or even an atoll. — Erromango Island : Cook (Second 

 Voyage, vol. ii. p. 45, 4to. edit.) speaks of rocks everywhere 

 lining the coast, and the natives offered to haul his boat over the 

 breakers to the sandy beach : Mr. Bennett, in a letter to the 

 editor of the Singapore Chron., alludes to the reefs on its shores. 

 It may, I think, be safely inferred from these passages that the 

 shore is fringed in parts by coral-reefs ; coloured red. — Sand- 

 wich Island : the east coast is said (Cook's Second Voyage, 

 vol. ii. p. 41) to be low, and to be guarded by a chain of breakers. 

 In the accompanying chart it is seen to be fringed by a reef; 

 coloured red. — Mallicollo : Forster speaks of the reef-bounded 

 shore : the reef is about 30 yards wide, and so shallow that 

 a boat cannot pass over it. Forster, also, (Observat. p. 23,) 

 says that the rocks of the sea-shore consist of madrepore. In 

 the plan of Sandwich harbour, the headlands are represented 

 as fringed ; coloured red. — Aurora and Pentecost Islands, ac- 

 cording to Bougainville, apparently have no reefs ; nor has the 



