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 account of my arrival and departure. Having made the neceary arrangements, we et ail for the Northward.

Ile Cocas lays in a North Eat and South Wet direction; its greatet length does not exceed twelve miles, nor breadth four miles.

It may be proper to remark, in this place, that, in all parts of the Eat Indies, a vinegar is made of the milk of the cocoa nut, equal to our trong white wine vinegar. I am unacquainted with the particular proces, but am dipoed to think it at once hort and imple. The old cocoa nut left in water for two hours, and then trained, produces a liquid, in colour and tate, little inferior, if not equal, to kim milk, which removed all corbutic complaints from among the crew, and preerved them in health, for many months.