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is an entrance : the water is very deep off these reefs ; 
coloured blue. 
Proceeding westward along the great volcanic chain of 
the East Indian or Malay Archipelago, Solor Strait is 
represented as fringed in a chart published by Dalrymple 
from a Dutch MS. ; as are parts of Flores, Adenara, and 
Solor. Horsburgh speaks of coral growing on these shores, 
and therefore I have no doubt that the reefs are of coral, 
and have coloured them red. We hear from Horsburgh 
(vol. ii. p. 602) that a coral flat bounds the shores of Sapy 
Bay. From the same authority it appears (p. 610) that 
reefs fringe the island of Timor -Young, on the N. shore of 
Sumbawa ; and likewise (p. 600) that Bally town in 
Lombock, is fronted by a reef, stretching along the shore 
at the distance of a hundred fathoms, with channels 
through it for boats ; these places, therefore, have been 
coloured red. — Bally Island: in a Dutch MS. chart on a 
large scale of Java, which was brought from that island 
by Dr. Horsfield, who had the kindness to show it me at 
the India House, its western, northern, and southern shores 
appear regularly fringed by a reef (see also Horsburgh, 
vol. ii. p. 593) ; and as coral is found abundantly there, I 
have no doubt that the reef is of coral, and therefore have 
coloured it red. 
Java. — My information regarding the reefs of this great 
island is derived from the chart just mentioned. The greater 
part of Madura is represented in it as regularly fringed, 
and likewise portions of the coast of Java immediately south 
of it. Dr. Horsfield informs me that coral is very abundant 
near Sourabaya. The adjoining islets, and parts of the N. 
coast of Java, west of Point Buang, or Japara, are fringed 
by reefs, said to be of coral. Lubeck, or Bavian Islands, 
lying at some distance from the shore of Java, are regularly 
fringed by coral-reefs : Curimon Java appears equally so, 
though it is not directly said that the reefs are of coral ; 
