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on the western side, where there probably is an entrance : 

 the water is very deep off these reefs ; coloured blue. 



Proceeding westward along the great volcanic chain of 

 the East Indian Archipelago, Solor Strait is represented in 

 a chart published by Dalrymple from a Dutch MS., as 

 fringed ; as are parts of Plores, of Adenara, and of Solor. 

 Horsburgh speaks of coral growing on these shores ; and 

 therefore I have no doubt that the reefs are of coral, and 

 accordingly have coloured them red. We hear from 

 Horsburgh (vol. ii. p. 602) that a coral-flat bounds the 

 shores of Sapy Bay. From the same authority it appears 

 (p. 610) that reefs fringe the island of Timor-Young, on 

 the N. shore of Sumbawa ; and, likewise (p. 600), that 

 Bally town in Lombock, is fronted by a reef, stretching 

 along the shore at a distance of a hundred fathoms, with 

 channels through it for boats ; these places, therefore, have 

 been coloured red. — Bally Isld. In a Dutch MS. chart on 

 a large scale of Java, which was brought from that island 

 by Dr. Horsfield, who had the kindness to show it me at 

 the India House, its western, northern, and southern 

 shores appear very regularly fringed by a reef (see also 

 Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 593) ; and as coral is found abund- 

 antly there, I have not the least doubt that the reef is of 

 coral, and therefore have coloured it red. 



Java. — My information regarding the reefs of this great 

 island is derived from the chart just mentioned. The 

 greater part of Madura is represented in it as regularly 

 fringed, and likewise portions of the coast of Java imme- 

 diately south of it. Dr. Horsfield informs me that coral 

 is very abundant near Sourabaya. The islets and parts of 

 the N. coast of Java, west of Point Buang, or Japara, are 

 fringed by reefs, said to be of coral. Lubeck, or Bavian 

 Islands, lying at some distance from the shore of Java, 



