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isis. described. No other land can answer, as to 
March 6 . latitude, but Rosemary, Malus, Legendre, or 
Gidley Islands ; but, on the two latter, there is 
no decided bluff, and when bearing S.E. by S., 
no land could be seen bearing East. The rocks 
of Malus Island, on which we landed, are “ of a 
rusty colour, and ponderous*,” and the bluff, as 
I have before remarked, very conspicuously 
forms the east end of the island. 
Dampier remarks, that Rosemary Island is 
two hundred and thirty-two miles east of the me* 
ridian of Shark’s Bay ; this, applied to the longi- 
tude of that place, will make it in 117° 12', which 
is only 35' east of my Courtenay Head. 
This group was named, by the French, Dam* 
pier’s Archipelago, and as there is ample proof 
of its being the place which that navigator visited, 
the name has been admitted by us ; but we have 
also extended it to the islands forming the east 
side of Mermaid’s strait, which are laid down by 
the French as a part of the main land. 
Vide Appendix, C. 
