an $L=10$ lattice at $\beta=2.3$ (where $K = 0.136$ (2)) we should work on a lattice that is roughly $L=28$ at $\beta=2.5$ (where $K = 0.0346$ (8)). In particular we note that an $L=32$ lattice at $\beta = 2.5115$ (where $K = 0.0324$ (10)) is more than large enough and an ensemble of 100 such configurations, already gauge fixed [@bali96], has been made available to us by the authors. The gauge fixing procedure used in obtaining these is somewhat different from the one we have used in our previous calculations (in its treatment of the Gribov copies — see below) and although this is not expected to affect the qualitative features that are our primary interest here, it will have some effect on detailed questions of scaling etc. We have therefore also performed a calculation on an ensemble of 100 gauge fixed $L=20$ field configurations at $\beta=2.5$. While the latter volume is not expected to be large enough to recreate a clear gulf between the largest and remaining clusters, we would expect to find smaller finite size corrections than with the $L=16$ lattice we used previously.

In gauge fixing a configuration we select a local maximum of the Morse functional, 