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hilly island, like the others of this 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 isld. as very low, not more than six or 

 seven feet high (vol. i., bk. ii. chap, iii., 1777); in the 

 chart published in the Coquiltts Atlas, a reef is engraved 

 close to the shore : this isld. is not mentioned in the list 

 given by Mr. Williams (p. 16) in the Narrative of Missionary 

 Enterprise ; nature doubtful. As it is so near Atiu, it has 

 been unavoidably coloured red. — Rarotonga ; Mr. Williams 

 informs me that it is a lofty basaltic isld. with an attached 

 reef; coloured red. — There are three islands, Rourouti, 

 Roxburgh, and Hull, of which I have not been able to 

 obtain any account, and have left them uncoloured. Hull 

 Isld., in the French chart, is written with small letters as 

 being low. — Mangaia ; height about three hundred feet; 

 "the surrounding reef joins the shore" (Williams's Nar- 

 rative, p. 18); coloured red. — Rimetara ; Mr. Williams 

 informs me that the reef is rather close to the shore ; but, 

 from information given me by Mr. Ellis, the reef does not 

 appear to be quite so closely attached to it as in the 

 foregoing cases : the island is about three hundred feet 

 high (Naut. Mag., 1839, p. 738); coloured red.—- Rurutu; 

 Mr. Williams and Mr. Ellis inform me that this island 

 has an attached reef; coloured red. It is described by 

 Cook under the name of Oheteroa: he says it is not sur- 

 rounded, like the neighbouring islds. by a reef; he must 

 have meant a distant reef. — Toubouai ; in Cook's chart 

 {2nd Voyage, vol. ii. p. 2) the reef is laid down in part one 

 mile, and in part two miles from the shore. Mr. Ellis 

 {Polynes. Res., vol. iii. p. 381) says the low land round the 

 base of the isld. is very extensive; and this gentleman 

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