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 ome, which reembled the thruh and blackbird, in hape, colour, and ize, with a few herons and a variety of maller birds.

The tide mut be an object of particular attention, in anchoring at, or ailing from, this place: it ebbs and flows from ixteen to eighteen feet, perpendicular, and, from the obervations made by myelf and the officers in the boats, it flows even, and ebbs five hours; the ebb etting to the Eatward, and the flood to the Wetward: but the flood runs not near o trong, as the ebb, which runs at the rate of four or five knots an hour. The time of weighing and anchoring mut alo be attended to, as both ets are right on the points of the bay; and, if its rie and falls are regular, it will be high water at full and change, at four, A. M.

The rats, which are numerous, in this iland, exactly reemble the common rat in England, and were, probably, left here by the Buccaneers. As we found their nets in the top of mot of the trees which we cut down. I am dipoed to conjecture, that this is a very humid pot, at all times and eaons.