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by their linear and nearly horizontal outlines; and except 
in a few instances, as Mount Cockburn, Steep-Head, Mounts 
Trafalgar and Waterloo, (which look more like hills of floetz- 
trap,) they have very much the aspect of the summits in the 
coal formation *. 
The subjoined sketch of some of the islands off Admiralty 
Gulf, (looking southward from the north-east end of Cassini 
Island, about lat. 13° 50', E. long. 125° 50',) has some re- 
semblance to one of the views in Peron’s Atlas (pi. vi., 
fig. 7):— 
Corneille T. 
Fenelon I. 
Descartes I. Pascal I. 
and the outline of the lies Forbin (pi. viii., fig. 5, of the 
also exhibits remarkably the peculiar form represented in 
several of Captain King’s drawings. 
Peak upon C. Voltaire. Condillac Island, bearing; South, irvo miles distant. 
The red colour of the cliffs on the north-west and west 
coasts, is also an appearance which is frequently noticed on 
* Captain King, however, has informed me, that in some of 
these cases, the shape of the hill is really that of a roof, or hay- 
rick ; the tranverse section being angular, and the horizontal top 
an edge. 
