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^xx^^* g^^'^^^^'i^lly to the eaft end, where it terminates in a cliff 
June^^sT' ^ moderate height : both fides have a range of thefe 
cliffs extending the whole length, which are chiefly 
compofed of white fand. The whole of the ifland bears 
the ftrongefl marks of being a volcanic produdtion, 
having great quantities of pumice flone on it, and 
the rocks quite burnt np. The top of the land was 
covered with a coarfe kind of grafs, and the place affords 
great plenty of the wild mangrove. The extent of this 
ifland is about two miles and an half, nearly in the di- 
redion of eaft-fouth-eaft and well-north-weft ; the foil 
, a mixture of mould and fand. The inhabitants are the 
brown gull, the light-grey bird, ganets, and a parroquet 
of the fame fpecies with thofe met with at Lord Howe's 
Ifland. The gentlemen could fcarcely walk a itep with- 
out being up to the knee in holes : they faw a great 
number of rats and mice, and found many birds lying 
dead at the entrances of their burrows : they faw no 
appearance of frefli water, though from the gullies that 
were formed in various parts, the ifland muft certainly 
be fubjedl to very heavy rains. This ifland was named 
Macauley\ Ifland, after G. M. Macauley, Efq; and the 
two iflands to the fouthward, Curtis'?, Ifles, after Timothy 
and William Curtis, Efqrs. At five in the afternoon, 
the Captain returning on board, the boat was hoifted in, 
and they made fail, ftanding to the eaflward with a mo- 
derate breeze at fouth-weft. Macauley's Ifland is fitu- 
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