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Caledonia on tlie one hand, and the Fidji group on the other. 
Nevertheless, I have been assured by Mr. G. Bennett, that 
coral grows vigorously on their shores ; as, indeed, will be 
further shown in some of the following notices. As, there- 
fore, these islands are not encircled, and as coral grows 
vigorously on their shores, we might almost conclude, with- 
out further evidence, that they are fringed, and hence I 
have applied the red colour with rather greater freedom 
than in other instances. — Matthew's Bock, an active volcano, 
some way south of the group (of which a plan is given in 
atlas of the Astrolabe's Voyage) does not appear to have 
reefs of any kind about it. — Annatom, the southernmost of 
the Hebrides : from a rough woodcut given in the United 
Service Journal (1831, part iii. p. 190), accompanying a 
paper by Mr. Bennett, it appears that the shore is fringed ; 
coloured red. — Tanna : Forster, in his Observations (p. 22), 
says Tanna has on its shores coral-rock and madrepores ; 
and the younger Forster, in his account (vol. ii. p. 2G9), 
speaking of the harbour, says the whole S.E. side consists 
of coral-reefs, which are overflowed at high water : part of 
the southern shore in Cook’s chart is represented as fringed ; 
coloured red. — Immer is described (United Service Journ. 
1831, part iii. p. 192) by Mr. Bennett as being of moderate 
elevation, with cliffs appearing like sandstone ; coral grows * 
in patches on its shore, but I have not coloured it ; and 
I mention these facts because Immer might have been 
thought, from Forster’s classification (Observations, p. 14), 
to have been a low island, or even an atoll. — Erromango 
Island : Cook (Second Voyage, vol. ii. p. 45, 4to edit.) 
speaks of rocks everywhere lining the coast, and the natives 
offered to haul his boat over the breakers to the sand) 
beach : Mr. Bennett, in a letter to the editor of the Singa- 
pore Chron., alludes to the reefs on its shores. It may, I 
think, be safely inferred from these passages that the shore 
is fringed in parts by coral-reefs ; coloured red. — Sandwich 
