ff?O APPENDIX. [C. A!on? this -eastern line of shore, gTanite has been found throughout a space of nearly five hundred miks ;--?t Cap, Cleveland; ?Cape Graftun ;--Endearour River;--Linrd ls!M?d ;--end at Clack's Island, on the north-west of the rocky mass which forms Cape Melville. And rocks of the trap formation have been obtained in three detached points amoug the islands off the shore ;?in the Percy Isles, about latitude 21 � ;--Sunday hhnd, north of C?,pe Grenville, about latitude 12 �d in Oood's Island, on the north*west of Cape York, latitude 10 �. The Gulf of Carpentaria havin? been fully examined by Captain Flirtdata, was not visited by Captain King; but the following account has been deduced from the voyage and charts of the former, combined with the specimens co!leet?i by Mr. Brown, who has she hvoured me with an extract from the notes taken by himself on th? IMUt of tho coast, The !and, on the east and south of the Gulf of Ctrpentsris, is so low, that for a space of needy 8iz hundred milee,.-- fr?n Endeavour Strait tu a ran?e of hills on the msiahad, vest of Wellesley Islands, at the bottom of the pert of the coast is higher than a ship's most-beret *. Some of the land in Wellesley islands is higher than the main; but the lureeat island is, probably, not more than one hun- dred and fif? feet in bei?bt t; and !ow-wcoded hills occur on the mainland, from thence tu Sir Edward Pellew's --The rock observed on the shore at Coen River, the only point ou the e?tern side of the Gulf where Captain Flirttiers landed, was calcareous sandstone of recent 'concretionul formation. In Sweer's lshnd, sue of Welleslay's Isles, a hill of �F!Jnders' Chrts, Plate XIV'. ? F!inders, Vol. fl., p. 158.
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