it is high water at the full and change of the moon at 8° 33'. The variation of the needle is 2° 30′ easterly. Arrow, Specimen of the Andaman Language. *It may appear surprising that they should have names for animals that are not found in their islands. This circumstance may tend to confirm the story of their origin. Mac cee XXVIII. ON BARREN ISLAND, AND ITS VOLCANO. BY LIEUT. R. H. COLEBROOKE. A BOUT fifteen leagues to the eastward of the Andaman Islands lies an island which navigators, from its appearance, have justly called Barren. On the 12th of May, 1787, Captain Kyd and myself, being on board the Trial Snow, on a voyage to Pulo Penang, Barren Island in sight, bearing SSW. seven leagues distant, saw a column of smoke ascending from its summit, and by the help of our glasses plainly perceived it to arise from a hill nearly in its centre, around which appeared an extensive valley, or crater: but being becalmed, we could not approach nearer to examine it, The following account of this remarkable island is given by Captain Blair, in his report of the Survey of the Andaman Islands. * "I left that coast March the 21st, and landed on "Barren Island on the 24th.---The volcano was in "a violent state of eruption, bursting out immense "volumes of smoke, and frequently showers of red"hot stones. Some were of a size to weigh three or "four tons, and had been thrown some hundred yards past the foot of the cone. There were two. |