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APPENDIX. 
109° W., from a drawing appended to a MS. plan in the 
Admiralty, does not appear to be an atoll, but Sir E. 
Belcher (Voyage round the World, vol. i. 1843, p. 255) 
speaks of it as of coral-formation, with deep water within 
the lagoon ; left uncoloured. The eastern part of the 
Pacific presents an enormous area without any islands, 
except Easter and Gomez, which do not appear to be sur- 
rounded by reefs. 
The Low or Paumotu Archipelago. — This group 
consists of about 80 atolls : it "would be quite superfluous 
to refer to descriptions of each. In D’Urville and Lot tin’ a 
chart, one island ( Wolchonsky ) is written with a capital 
letter, signifying, as explained in a former chapter, that it 
is a high island ; but this must be a mistake, as the orginal 
chart by Bellingshausen shows that it is a true atoll. 
Captain Beecliey says of the 32 groups which he examined 
(of the greater number of which I have seen beautiful MS. 
charts in the Admiralty), that 29 now contain lagoons, and 
he believes the other three orginally did so. Bellingshausen 
(see an account of this Russian voyage, in the Biblioth. des 
Voyages, 1834, p. 443) says that the 17 islands which he 
discovered resembled each other in structure, and he has 
given charts on a large scale of all of them. Kotzebue has 
given plans of several ; Cook and Bligh mention others ; a 
few were seen during the voyage of the Beagle ; and notices 
of other atolls are scattered through several publications. 
The Actceon group in this archipelago has lately been dis- 
covered (Geograph. Journ., vol. vii. p. 454) ; it consists of 
three small and low islets, one of which has a lagoon. 
Another lagoon -island has been discovered (Naut. Mag. 
1839, p. 770) in 22° 4' S. and 136° 20' W. Dana, in his 
work on Corals and Coral Islands, gives a full account of 
this archipelago. Towards the S.E. there are some islands 
of a different nature : Elizabeth Island is described by 
Beechey (p. 46, 4to edit.) as fringed by reefs, at the distance 
