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coral banks of Bassas do Pedro (20-30 fatboms)* * * § , Sesostris Bank 
(11-30 fathoms), and Koradivli (23-26 fathoms), lying to the north 
of the Laccadive Archipelago. It is curious to note that the name 
of the last mentioned bank appears to be applied by the author of 
the Tohfat-al-Mujahidin to one of the inhabited islands of the 
archipelago, t 
South of the Piti Bank lies Korati, a large inhabited island in 
Lon. 72° 40' E. and Lat. 10° 35' N., visited by Mr. Hume, He 
speaks of it J as a fine island of the usual type with a fair lagoon. 
The soil appears to be better than that of Ameni, the cultivation 
practically identical; the only wild species that Mr. Hume collected 
was the sea-shore laurel, Eernandia peltata ; this he did because he 
observed it here for the first time. The species is now also reported 
from Miuikoi, whence Dr. Alcoek sends specimens, but so far it 
has not been obtained in any of the true Laccadive Islands except 
Korati. A small islet, Korati Feti, which, according to Lieut. 
Wood’s table has coco-nut trees, occurs on the same reef. 
Besides the Elik^lpeni Bank, already described, the peaks of the 
Eastern chain are the atolls of Anderut and Kalpeni. 
Anderut, Lon, 73° 35' E. and Lat. 10° 45' N., is a large island 
occupying the southern face of a very extensive reef of the usual 
type. According to Lieut. Wood, who visited.it in 1834, the island 
presents a bold front to windward ; that front being, not a reef as is 
usually the case, but one side of the island itself, while the coral- 
reef on which it is based and the lagoon which the reef encloses 
project to leeward. He describes it further§ as low, well planted 
with cocoanut trees, and free from underwood. Its medium height 
“ above the sea is about 9 feet, but towards the centre of the island, 
and on its southern side, the surface is lower, and in no part does 
*'it exceed the height of 12 or 15 feet.” 
• Hume, “ Stray Feathers,” vol. vi., p. 428; 
t *' Madr. Journ. of Lit. and Sc.,” vol. xiv., p. 3. Kordeeb (Koradivh ?) is given aa 
one of the five principal islands which contain “ cities probably, however, Kiltfin 
is intended by the historian, though the name he gives is apparently that by which 
this sunken bank is known. 
J Hnme, “Stray Feathers,” vol. vi., p. 454. 
§ Wood, “Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soo,,” vol.. vi., p, 31. 
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