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 and, having with great rik and difficulty effected a landing, they travered the ile, which produced nothing but a plant, reembling the common nettle, of a alt tate and diagreeable odor. They could find no freh water, and the oil was mere and, from one to ix inches deep on a olid rock, and wahed into furrows, as it appeared, by heavy rains. No land-bird, quadruped, or even inect, except flies, were een on the iland; but great numbers of birds-nets, containing addled eggs: nor was there any kind of hell-fih. On the iland, were the remains of eals and a quantity of decayed eal-kins, uppoed to have been left there by Mr. Ellis, (who viited this place in the year 1791,) and probably, from the difficulty of taking them away.

Of the danger of getting from this iland, we had a very melancholy experience; as our people were upet everal times, before they got from the urf, and one of our bet eamen, was unfortunately killed, having his back broken, by the jolly-boat falling, upon him.

The only landing place, is on a andy beach on the North ide of the ile; and the tide ebbed on it, while they were on hore, between ix and even feet, and the ebb and flood runs to the Northward and Eatward. At the time they landed, which was at ix in the morning, it was near