'? 8UR?EY OF TIlE INTERTROPICAL lsso. exactly; �or they are very 10w and rocky, and oct?-?l. abound .in reefs, one of whi�.h? extends a distance to the north-west �rom.Trimouille Island. There remains' no doubt in my mind, but that Barrow's Island and TrimouJ]le Island, ? the ntunerous reefs around them? are the.identical Tryal Rock?, which have been. the theme and �dread of 'every voyager to the eastern islands for the two last centuries?.. Captain Flin?lers? spent some days in'an inefi%ctual search for'them, and has, I think, decidedly proved their non-existence between the parallels of.'20]; �d..21 �d .the meridians of 103?�d 106]? �e above islands accord exactly as to latitude; and the ?only ar- gument against the prob?tbili'ty 'of'this 'suppo- sition "is their loagitude ;'but,.during.the month of July, the current 'sets with .great 'strefigth to the Westward, and 'might. occasion considerable '?rrors �in. ships' reckonings, - which,'in. former .days,. were so, imperfectly kept, that no depend- .ence can be placed upon/them. �The Tryel Rocks obtained their name from the English ship Tryal, said to have been lost upon them, in 1622, (vide India** ?'rec?ory, vol. i. p. 100.) This danger having been once laid down will, perhaps, never be erased From the chart, although it is generally believed not to exist. It has been placed in various positions, according to the account which the compiler gives most credence to. In Arro?vsmith's large chart of the South Sea, it ?s lald do?vn in 20 � S., and 104? � T FLINDSES, VOl. il. pp. 2?1--2?,
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