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 description therefore will not be expected. We were told, that it is an Island of no great extent, rough and barren, inhabited by the ; a clan not powerful nor numerous, but of antiquity, which most other families are content to reverence. The name is supposed to be a depravation of some other; for the language does not afford it any etymology. is proprietor both of and some adjacent Islands, among which is, so lately raised to renown by Mr..

When the Islanders were reproached with their ignorance, or insensibility of the wonders of, they had not much to reply. They had indeed considered it little, because they had always seen it; and none but philosophers, nor they always, are struck with wonder, otherwise than by novelty. How would it surprise an unenlightened ploughman, to hear a company