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| | Darwin, Coral reefs Appendix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | MARSHALL GROUP.—We are well acquainted with this group from the excellent charts of the separate islands, made during the two voyages of Kotzebue: a reduced one of the whole group may be easily seen in Krusentern's Atlas, and in Kotzebue's Second Voyage. |
 | | Nearly all that is known of this group is derived from the labours of Dentrecasteaux and Bougainville: the latter has represented one continuous reef ninety miles long, parallel to the shore, and in places as much as ten miles from it; coloured pale blue. |
 | | SALOMAN ARCHIPELAGO: the chart in Krusenstern's atlas shows that these islands are not encircled, and as coral appears, from the works of Surville, Bougainville, and Labillardière, to grow on their shores, this circumstance, as in the case of the New Hebrides, is a presumption that they are fringed. |
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