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attached; coloured red. — Atm, or Wateeo: a moderately 
elevated, hilly island, like the others of the group ; the 
reef is described in Cook’s Voyage as attached to the shore, 
and about 100 yards wide ; coloured red. — Fenoua-iti : 
Cook describes this island as very low, not more than six 
or seven feet in height (vol. i. book ii. chap. iii. 1777) ; in 
the chart published in the Coquille’s atlas, a reef is en- 
graved close to the shore : this island is not mentioned in 
the list given by Mr. Williams (p. 1G) in the Narrative of 
Missionary Enterprise ; nature doubtful ; but as it lies so 
near Atiu, it has been unavoidably coloured red. — Faro- 
tonga : Mr. Williams informs me that this is a lofty 
basaltic island, with an attached reef ; coloured red. — ■ 
There are three other islands, Bourouti, Boxburgh, and 
Hull, of which I have not been able to obtain any account, 
and have left them uncoloured. Hull Island, in the French 
chart, is written with small letters as being low. — 
Mangaia : height about 300 feet ; ‘ the surrounding reef 
joins the shore ’ (Williams’s Narrative, p. 18) ; coloured red. 
- — Bimetara : Mr. Williams informs me that the reef is 
rather close to the shore ; but, from information given me 
by Mr. Ellis, the reef does not appear to be quite so closely 
attached to it as in the foregoing cases : the island is about 
300 feet high (Naut. Mag. 1839, p. 738) ; coloured red. — 
Bu/rutu: Mr. Williams and Mr. Ellis inform me that this 
island has an attached reef; coloured red. It is described 
by Cook under the name of Oheteroa : he says it is not 
surrounded like the neighbouring islands, by a reef ; but 
he must mean a distant reef. — Toubouai : in Cook’s chart 
(Second Voyage, vol. ii. p. 2) the reef is laid down in a 
part at the distance of one mile, and in another part at the 
distance of two miles from the shore ; Mr. Ellis (Polynes. 
Ees. vol. iii. p. 381) says the low land round the base of 
the island is very extensive ; and this gentleman informs 
me that the water within the reef appears deep ; coloured 
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