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Along this eastern line of shore, granite has been found 
throughout a space of nearly five hundred miles ; — at Cape 
Cleveland ; — Cape Grafton ; — Endeavour River ; — Lizard 
Island; — and at Clack's Island, on the north-west of the 
rocky mass which forms Cape Melville. And rocks of the 
trap formation have been obtained in three detached points 
among the islands off the shore ; — in the Percy Isles, about 
latitude 21® 40' ; — Sunday Island, north of Cape Grenville, 
about latitude 12®; and in Good’s Island, on the north-west 
of Cape York, latitude 10® 34'. 
The Gulf of Carpentaria having been fully examined by 
Captain Flinders, was not visited by Captain King ; but 
the following account has been deduced from the voyage 
and charts of the former, combined with the specimens 
collected by Mr. Brown, who has also favoured me with an 
extract from the notes taken by himself on that part of the 
coast. 
The land, on the east and south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 
is so low, that for a space of nearly six hundred miles, — 
from Endeavour Strait to a range of hills on the mainland, 
west of Wellesley Islands, at the bottom of the gulf, — no 
part of the coast is higher than a ship’s mast-head *. Some 
of the land in Wellesley islands is higher than the main; 
but the largest island is, probably, not more than one hun- 
dred and fifty feet in height t; and low-wooded hills occur 
on the mainland, from thence to Sir Edward Pellew’s group. 
— The rock observed on the shore at Coen River, the only 
point on the eastern side of the Gulf where Captain Flinders 
landed, was calcareous sandstone of recent concretional 
formation. 
In Sweer’s Island, one of Wellesley’s Isles, a hill of 
* Flinders’ Charts, Plate XIV. 
t Flinders, Vol. II., p. 158. 
