PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
4.5 
Dec. 
eastern and north-western sides of the lagoon the south 
^eing left low n i u u i ’ ^o^^th-western part cilAP. 
face nP tl. f ™ ^ O" ‘•'e rocky sur- ' 
dark 1 '"’'-e and the sea, lies a stratum of 
rontly composed of decayed vegetable substances. A variety evet 
green trees take root in this bank auH Rv ^ 
penetrable to the sun s rays, and urpsAryf + y-n 
liveliest green. Present to the eye a grove of the 
As soon as we had finished e,,,. ^ 
completed a plan of it, we made saiU^Tl! "" 
neared the horizon and wh *“ soon 
from the deck Por se seven miles distant ceased to be visible 
that we made but ' ' afterwards the winds were so light, 
that nothing mio-ht we lay-to every night, in order 
On the 30tt we saw r , I 
set directed their fl- n number of white tern, which at sun- 
a few hours afterwa ' indicated the vicinity of land, which 
distance. At daylight mast-head at a considerable 
end, and despatclLft n south-western 
the ship ranleTt “ -hile 
them off a sandy bav it ‘t " ^ distance, and waited for 
We fn 1 n north-west extremity. 
vicinity, and belora-edV^^^^^^ differed essentially from all others in its 
which are in existeu formation, very few instances of 
Captain Cook, are ofTi ' Savage Islands, discovered by 
visited by Lord Byron ”hi Perhaps also Malden Island, 
length, and one in breadth ^®^^nd is five miles in 
above the sea. On all sirir' ^ feet 
perpendicular cliffs about fiftv hounded by 
roral. more or less porous h^Lt nt’ deacl 
into a compact calcareous substaurjithin.^pL™*.!’!’ '’“‘‘“rog 
secondary limestone, and has a species of milleLre b t "" f^’^eture of 
'b These cliffs are considerally underm ^ r 
