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West End of New Guinea. — Port Dory : from the 
charts in the Voyage of the Coquille, it would appear that 
the coast in this part is fringed by coral-reefs ; M. Lesson, 
however, remarks that the corals are sickly ; coloured red. 
— Waig 'ou : a considerable portion of the northern shore 
of these islands are seen in the charts (on a large scale) 
in Freycinet’s Atlas to he fringed by coral-reefs. Forrest 
(p. 21, Voyage to New Guinea) alludes to the coral-reefs 
lining the heads of Piapis Bay ; and Horsburgh (vol. ii. 
p. 599, 4th edit.), speaking of the islands in Dampier Strait, 
says, ‘ sharp coral-rocks line their shores ; ’ coloured red. — 
In the sea north of these islands, we have Guedes (or 
Freewill, or St. David's), which from the chart given in 
the 4to edit, of Carteret’s Voyage must be an atoll. 
Krusenstern says the islets are very low ; coloured blue. — • 
Carteret's Shoals, in 2° 53' N., are described as circular, 
with stony points showing all round, with deeper water in 
the middle ; coloured blue. — Aiou : the plan of this group, 
given in the atlas of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, shows 
that it is an atoll ; and, from a chart in Forrest’s Voyage, 
it appears there is 12 fathoms within the circular reef ; 
coloured blue. — The S.W. coast of New Guinea appears to 
be low, muddy, and devoid of reefs. The Arru, Timor-laut 
and Tcnimber Groups have lately been examined by 
Captain Kolff, the MS. translation of which, by Mr. W. 
Earl, I have been permitted to read, through the kindness 
of Captain Washington, R.N. These islands are mostly 
rather low, and are surrounded by distant reefs (the Ki 
Islands, however, are lofty, and, from Mr. Stanley’s survey, 
appear without reefs) ; the sea in some parts is shallow, in 
others profoundly deep, as near Larrat. From the imper- 
fection of the published charts, I have been unable to 
decide to which class these reefs belong. From the dis- 
tance to which they extend from the land where the sea is 
very deep, I am strongly inclined to believe they ought to 
