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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1S22. hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high, 
Jan. 15. here and there sprinkled with shrubs, but in 
many parts quite bare: behind this frontier a 
second range of hills was occasionally seen, on 
which the trees appeared to be of moderate size : 
the shore is rocky for two miles off, and in many 
parts the sea broke. At half-past three o’clock 
we were abreast of a low, sandy projection, 
supposed to be Captain Baudin’s Cape Les- 
chenault. The appearance of the coast to the 
northward of this cape differed from what we 
passed in the morning, in that the coast hillocks 
are more bare of vegetation ; there appeared to 
be several ridges behind the coast dunes,” but 
they were all equally unproductive of vegetation, 
Lancelin Island was not distinctly made out, but 
the two small rocky lumps on the bare sand-hills, 
that M. de Freycinet mentions, were seen and 
thought to be very remarkable. At seven o’clock, 
having reached in my plan the latitude 31° 0' 30", 
and longitude 115° 0' 0", we hauled off shore for 
15. the night, and at six o’clock a.m., stood towards 
the land again. At half-past ten o’clock we were 
so near to it as to see the beach: at noon, the 
latitude was observed to be 30° 52' IB'', its lon- 
gitude being 114° 56' 45", at which time we 
were on the parallel of the two rocky lumps 
seen the last evening. Hence we steered north. 
