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A VOYAGE TO 
[East Coast 
1803 . 
August. 
quainted with the six or eight following distinct banks of coral in 
the sea between them, exclusive of Wreck Reef and the Cato’s Bank. 
Two reefs discovered by Bougainville. 
Bature de Diane, by the same. 
Two reefs further westward, by the Investigator. 
Booby Shoal, towards New Caledonia, by captain H. L. Ball. 
Bellona’s Shoal, by the ship of that name. 
Bampton’s Shoal, an extensive reef with two small islands. 
There are also the islets and shoals seen by the ship Sovereign, 
which are probably a part of those that extend so far from the north- 
west end of New Caledonia ; and all these, with some others fur- 
ther northward, lie in the space comprehended between Louisiade 
and New Guinea on the north,— New Caledonia to the east,— New 
South Wales to the west,- and a line drawn from Sandy Cape to the 
Isle of Pines on the south. Few ships have passed through this 
sea without making the discovery of some new bank of coral ; and 
it is probable that several other patches of reef, yet unknown, will 
be found in it, especially on the Caledonian side. This space might 
be very appropriately called the Corallian Sea. 
