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Tions having obtained from one turtle 1,940 eggs Near the islands was noticed by Stokes, a " shrubby, thick, compact sort of sea-weed also seen on the parts of the north-west coast frequented by the turtle, and which is probably their food The islands are one mile aiid-a-half from each other ; the larger and more northerly is two miles and-a-half long by three-quarters wide, with cliffs 011 the south-east side of sand and ironstone formation, the latter predomina- ting.

Sweers Island, south of the Bountiful Islands, bounded by low dark cliffs on the north-east, is very woody, and was found to be literally covered with locusts Bentinck Island has an extent of ten miles either way, is slightly elevated, thickly wooded, and abounds in several sorts of winged game.

Point Inscription (so called from a tree being found by Stokes, with a notice of Flinders visit in the Investigator forty years previous cut thereon) is in 17 6 50" and 7 28 30" of Port Essington.

The west shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria is somewhat higher than the east shore, and from Limmens Bight to the latitude of Groote Eyland, is lined by a range of low hills Proceeding to the northward the coast becomes irregular and broken, con- sisting chiefly of primitive rocks, the upper part of the hills being composed of a reddish sandstone.