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SURVEY OF THE INTERTliOPICAL 
isio. paid by a very extensive view of the surrounding 
SepTi9. country, and by obtaining bearings of Lacrosse 
Island, and Shakspeare Hill ; which served to 
fix the position of View Hill. , 
The south end of Adolphus Island, of which 
I had a commanding view, is a low, flat salt- 
swamp, surrounded by mangrove bushes. To 
the south-eastward of Shakspeare Hill, but quite 
detached from it, is a range of hills extend- 
ing in unconnected patches toward Mount Con- 
nexion. The principal stream of the gulf, which 
is the west arm, runs under the base of View 
Hill ; three and a half miles farther on, it opens 
into an extensive basin, at the bottom of which is 
some high land ; here the basin is contracted in 
its size, and trends to the westward round a man- 
grove point, where it was lost to view. 
Mr. Cunningham had also made an excursion 
upon Adolphus Island; he had walked over the 
salt-swamp towards the hills, which, from his de- 
scription, are precisely of the same character as 
View Hill; the rock formation is principally of 
sand- stone, blocks of which (the largest not ex- 
ceeding three feet in diameter) are profusely 
scattered over the sandy soil, and are sometimes 
found covered with a crust of quartz: but, not- 
withstanding the aridity and apparent barren- 
ness of the soil, many plants were recovering 
