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which the island is composed. Thereare still some detached circumstanceswhich remain to be noticed.

The whole surface of the island isevery where overspread with a vastquantity of loose fragments, consistingof splinters of the blue basaltic rock,intermixed with light, spongy, porous,and honeycombed stones, very variousin their colour and specific gravity.

No sand is found on the coast, ex-cepting at one place, which, on that ac-count, is called Sandy Bay; and theisland on this side, from whatever cause,seems to have suffered greater w'asteand decay than ;n any other part. Thesand here is chiefly black, and evident-ly composed of portions of the basalticrock. All the other little strands andbeaches consist of small stones, veryvarious in their colours, and regularlyrounded and smooth, but without anyadmixture of sand. There are some

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