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Table I .—Soundings in the vicinity of N’arcondam.— {Continued.) 
GENERAL DIRECTION OF 
LINE OF SOUNDINGS. 
DISTANCE IN MILES FROM 
CENTRAL PEAK. 
DEPTH OP SOUNDINGS IN 
FATHOMS. 
S. W. 
60 
1140 
W. N. W. 
H 
162 
W. N. W. 
407 
W. N. W. 
3 
509 
W. N. W. 
3^ 
685 
w. by 8. 
40 
922 
N. N. E. 
2 
74 
N. N. E. 
104 
N. N. B. 
3i 
150 
N. N. E. 
411 
N. N. E. 
9i 
362 
N. N. E. 
16 
290 
N. N. E. 
62 
70 
N. N. E. 
70 
50 
The island is a fairly-regnlar oval with the longer diameter in a 
line running north-north-east to sonth-sonth-west; this diameter is 
two and a half miles long, the other one and a half. The regularity 
of outline is somewhat broken at the north-east corner by an oblong 
peninsula about three furlongs long and half a mile across ; this spit, 
which is occupied by a steep-sided twin-peaked hill, quite dwarfed 
by the central mass, is in no sense detached from the rest of the island 
but passes through two or three intervening heights into the main 
peak. This peak, situated slightly to the south and west of the centre 
of the island, is crowned by three small points of which the most 
northern is the highest. The two others, situated a quarter of a mile 
to the south and to the south-east, respectively, are at the seaward 
ends of two ridges that diverge from , the highest peak, and are 
separated by the beginning of a deep gorge. The northern point, as 
already mentioned, reaches 2330 feet ; the point to the south is 2150 ft., 
that to the south-east 2200 feet high. The gorge that separates the 
two latter, after passing southward between them for about a quarter 
of a mile, turns south-west round the shoulder of the lower one, and 
thus partially separates the south end of the island, as a narrow ridge 
1200 to 1500 feet high, from the rest of the hill. It is, however, only 
the western end of this ridge that is free, the eastern end is connected, 
by means of a narrow but lofty ridge, with the south-eastern part of 
the central peak. Numerous other gorges, none of them however so 
striking as that just described, furrow the hill on every side. 
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