They are more abundant and of a larger size in warmer seas; several varieties, attaining a large size and presenting marked varietal characters, are found in the intertropical area of the Atlantic.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL BATHURST, K.G., HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, AND THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL COASTS OF AUSTRALIA, PERFORMED UNDER THEIR LORDSHIPS' JOINT DIRECTIONS AND FLATTERING COUNTENANCE, IS, BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT,

CHART OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WEST COASTS OF AUSTRALIA.

... VOYAGES FOR THE SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL COASTS OF AUSTRALIA.

Besides which we had made a running survey of that portion of the intertropical part of the east coast that is situated between the Percy Isles and Torres Strait; a distance of 900 miles; the detailed survey of which had never before been made, for Captain Cook merely examined it in a cursory manner as he passed up the coast.

APPENDIX B. Containing a list and description of the subjects of natural history collected during Captain King's survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia.

... VOYAGES FOR THE SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL COASTS OF AUSTRALIA.

APPENDIX B. CONTAINING A LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTED DURING CAPTAIN KING'S SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA.

In fact, the slaves of black origin could resist the climate, where the badly acclimated whites, still unfit to support the heat of intertropical climates, would have perished by thousands.

The appearance along the shores of the Pandanus or screw-pine, which now attains its southern limits, introduces a kind of intertropical appearance to the vegetation.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, performed between the years 1818 and 1822, by Captain P.P. King, R.N., volume 1 page 226.

On its western side the bays are small, and the shores generally steep and rocky, with sandy intervals, the banks being covered with brush of the usual Australian intertropical character.