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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. and, steering to the northward, passed within the 
June 21 , three easternmost of the Family Islands, as the 
Endeavour did, and landed on the north eastern- 
most of the group, where the latitude was found 
to be 18° 2' 9 ". This island, like the rest, is of 
small extent, and is surrounded by huge detached 
rounded blocks of granite, over which it was not 
easy to pass. It rises to a peaked summit of a 
moderate height, but the face of the hill is so 
thickly covered with underwood and climbing 
plants as to render it perfectly inaccessible. 
Dunk Island, a little to the northward, is larger 
and higher, and is remarkable for its double- 
peaked summit. No natives were seen in pass- 
ing these islands, but the smoke of their fires, as 
usual, lined the coast, which here began to as- 
sume a more improved and favourable appear- 
ance: the shore is diversified by projecting wooded 
hills and intervening sandy bays ; and, at the 
back, the hills are very high and separated 
from each other by deep valleys, where there 
must be abundance of water and probably good 
soil. 
In the evening the anchor was dropped to the 
eastward of the two southernmost islands of a 
group, which was named after my friend Edward 
Barnard, Esq. We were followed all the afternoon 
by a large hump-backed whale, a fish which ap- 
pears to be numerous on all parts of this coast 
