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460 VARELLA AND DURIAN STRAITS. [chap. xi.
Great Durian than 2 miles, on account of a bank which projects 1^ miles
from that side of the island, with 5 to 3 fathoms water, and possbibly less
in places.
In the eastern part of the strait of Sanglar the depths are from 18 to 12
fathoms, decreasing to 10, and 7 fathoms at its western end. In the
fairway of the western end is a patch of 4 fathoms, from which the north-
west extreme of Little Durian bears S. by W. J W., distant nearly one
mile. The soundings that have been taken in this strait are very few, and
as it is quite possible that shoaler parts than those known of may exist, it is
not therefore recommended.
MORO ISLAND which forms the eastern side of the middle part
of Durian strait, lies about 1^ miles northward of Grxeat Durian ; it is 5^
miles long in a north-west and south-east direction, and about one mile
broad. On the east side of Moro island, between it and Suji island, is
Moro strait.
The west side of Moro is but imperfectly known, and few soundings
have been obtained near it. A reef appears to extend about a quarter of a
mile from its north-west point, having 10 to 12 fathoms close to.
Monkey Islands, three in number, lie from one to 2 miles westward
of the south part of Moro island ; the middle island, which is the
largest, is about half a mile in diameter.
Rocks.—Two rocks or patches of reef lie half a mile off the west
point of the westernmost Monkey island. The west extreme of Little
Durian, bearing S.S.E., or North Passage island S.W. by S., leads to the
westward. In the channel between these rocks and North Passage island
the soundings are 27 and 28 fathoms close to the island and in the fairway,
but near the rocks are 18 and 15 fathoms.
DolpMn Island, 153 feet high, situated about one third of a mile
off the north-west end of Moro island, -is about one mile in extent, and
fronted on its western side by a coral reef projecting about two cables
from the shore, with irregular depths of 13 to 20 fathoms close to.
A rock lies one third of a mile N.N.W. from the north extreme of
Dolphin island.
A reef, 2 cables in extent, steep-to, and dry at low water springs, lies
one mile westward of the southern part of Dolphin island. From the
centre of this reef, Red island bears N.N.W. ; and the south-west point of
Dolphin island is in line with the sandy north point of Moro island.
Pulo Bolombo,
tlie southern end of which lies about one mile
eastward of the north end of Moro, is high, about 3 miles long, north-west
and south-east, and half a mile broad. The north end of Pulo Bolombo is
fronted by a reef to a distance of nearly half a mile, having a white rock
within its edge, off the north-west point of the island.