EAST-1NDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 
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straits, and are lined with coral-rocks ; coloured red.- — 
Gue.be, lying between Waigiou and Gilolo, is engraved as if 
fringed ; and it is said by Freycinet, that all the soundings 
under five fathoms were on coral ; coloured red. — Gilolo : in 
a chart published by Dalrymple, the numerous islands on 
the western, southern ( Batcliian and the Strait of Patien- 
tia), and eastern sides appear fringed by narrow reefs ; 
these reefs, I suppose, are of coral, for it is said in Malte 
Brun (vol. xii. p. 156), ‘ sur les cotes (of Batcliian), coniine 
dans la plupart des lies de cet arcliipel, il y a des rocs do 
madrepores d’une beaute et d’une variete infinies.’ Forrest, 
also (p. 50), says Seland, near Batcliian, is a little island 
with reefs of coral ; coloured red. — Marty Island (north of 
Gilolo) : Horsburgli (Vol. ii. p. 506) says the northern coast 
is lined by reefs, projecting one or two miles, and having 
no soundings close to them ; I have left it uncoloured, 
although, as in some former cases, it ought probably to be 
pale blue. — Celebes. The western and northern coasts 
appear in the charts to be bold and without reefs. Near 
the extreme northern point, however, an islet in the 
Straits of Liinbe, and part of the adjoining shore, appear 
to be fringed : the east side of the bay of Manaclo has deep 
water, and is fringed by sand and coral ( Astrol . Voyage, 
Hydrog. Part, p. 453-4) ; this extreme point, therefore, I 
have coloured red. Captain Keppell, also, speaks (Expe- 
dition to Borneo, vol. i. p. 130) of the shore being in parts 
fringed with reefs ; he found upraised coral-reefs at the 
height of from 80 to 100 feet above the level of the sea. — 
Of the islands between the northern point of Celebes and 
the Philippines, I have not been able to find any account, 
except of Serangani, which appears surrounded by narrow 
reefs ; and Forrest (Voyage, p. 164) speaks of coral on 
its shores ; I have, therefore, coloured this island red. 
To the eastward of this chain lie several islands ; of which 
I cannot find any account, except of Karkalang , which is 
