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reef; but it does not appear that the water is deep there. 

 Outside the reef the depth is very irregular, varying from 

 five to fifty fathoms ; the form of the land is not very 

 abrupt; coloured red. — Taypin-san ; from the description 

 given (p. 195) by the same author, it appears that a very 

 irregular reef extends, to the distance of several miles, from 

 the southern island ; but whether it encircles a space of 

 deep water is not evident ; nor, indeed, whether these 

 outlying reefs are connected with those more immediately 

 adjoining the land; left uncoloured. I may here just add 

 that the shore of Kumi (lying west of Patchow) has a 

 narrow reef attached to it in the plan of it, in La Peyrouse's 

 atlas ; but it does not appear in the account of the voyage 

 that it is of coral ; uncoloured. — Loo Choo. The greater 

 part of the coast of this moderately hilly island is skirted 

 by reefs, which do not extend far from the shore, and 

 which do not leave a channel of deep water within them, as 

 may be seen in the charts accompanying Capt. B. Hall's 

 voyage to Loo Choo (see also remarks in Appendix, pp. xxi. 

 and xxv.). There are, however, some ports with deep 

 water, formed by reefs in front of valleys, in the same 

 manner as happens at Mauritius. Capt. Beechey, in a 

 letter to me, compares these reefs with those encircling 

 the Society Islands ; but there appears to me a marked 

 difference between them, in the less distance at which the 

 Loo Choo reefs lie from the land with relation to the 

 probable submarine inclination, and in the absence of an 

 interior deep water-moat or channel, parallel to the land. 

 Hence, I have classed these reefs with fringing-reefs, and 

 coloured them red. — Pescadores (west of Formosa). 

 Dampier (vol. i. p. 416) has compared the appearance of 

 the land to the southern parts of England. The islands 

 are interlaced with coral-reefs; but as the water is very 



