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SURVEY OP THE INTERTROPICAL 
The only edible fruit that we found was a small 
black grape : it bore a very inferior resemblance 
to the common sweet-water grape, but the leaf 
and habit are altogether different. 
The centre of the bay is formed by a sandy 
beach ; it is terminated by cliffs of about forty 
feet in height, the upper stratum of which ap- 
peared to be an indurated clay of a very red co- 
lour, occasioned by the ferruginous nature of the 
rocks and soil ; the lower part is a stratum of the 
whitest pipe-clay, the upper limit of which, from 
the surface having been washed clean by the late 
rains, was so defined, and produced so striking a 
contrast in point of colour, as to give the whole a 
most remarkable appearance. 
At the distance of ten miles behind the beach 
of the main land, which is very low, there is a 
continued ridge of rocky hills, which was named 
Wellington Range, and behind them is the Tor, a 
remarkable rock, that stands alone. The range 
is about twenty-five miles in extent, and its 
summit has a very irregular outline ; it is visible 
for eight or nine leagues. 
The morning after our arrival a base line was 
measured upon the beach for the survey of the 
bay, and whilst we were thus employed our people 
found and brought to me several traces of Malays, 
who, as we are informed by Captain Flinders, 
