?3? SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAl, lsts. continued to roll towards us, but just as the storm i?eb. ?4. was on the point of bursting, the clouds sud- denly dispersed and, in half an hour, the night turned out as fine as it had threatened to be the r?vel'?e. 2s. The next morning I landed with Mr. Itoe, and climbed the summit of Rocky Head before the sun rose ;' in the ascent we Crossed several deep ravines which, together with the !?ilh, were thickly covered with a wiry grass, growing over and amongst heaps of rocks that were piled. up in all directions as if it had been done purposely; the greater part of the surface of the i?land being covered with these sWnes, we had a considerable difficulty in advancing, and it was not without some labour that we ar- rived at the summit of the hill. Here the view was very extensive; the coast to the eastward of Cape Preston, trends inward and forms a bay, the shores of which are very low. The land on which we were, appeared to be the south-westernmost island of a considerable archipelago; and the land, to the eastward, was observed to be rocky and high, in comparison to the low sandy country we had been lately passing. From Dampier's description of Rosemary Island, I was, at first, induced to think
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