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 of the molie tree, wild mint tea, and a diet of turtle and teal oup, &c. Our boats travered all the lee-ide of the ile for alt, but without any ucces; though they dicovered everal rills of freh water. One of them proceeded from a bluff which forms the Eat point of the bay, and others were een at the bluff at the Eatern part of the ile. The latter were not examined, as the party did not land there; and the former was no more than ufficient to fill a ten gallon cag in a quarter of an hour. As thee high bluffs are at the extremity of the low land, the rills mut proceed from ome baonbasin [sic] or lake on the interior high grounds. One of thee I afterwards found on a hill which I acended, from whence the water was entirely drained. On the coat of America, in the dry eaon, I have een a long ucceion of lagoons of this kind, without the mallet drain on the beach below. The head of Stephen's bay poees the convenience of a mall interior cove, with three fathom water, that will hold four or five ail, and where they would be heltered from all winds. Alo a fine andy beach beneath the rocks, on which a veel may be hauled on hore, or heave down if occaion hould require it; and great abundance of turtles, mullet, and other fih might be caught in a eine. The turtles pas over the rocks, at high water, into alt lagoons to feed. The land is o low in this part of the iland, as,