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 towards the Eat, the land was covered with mall trees or buhes without leaves, and very few pots of verdure were viible to us; a few eals were een on the hore. The land ries at hort intervening ditances in mall hills or hillocks, of very ingular forms, which, when oberved through a glas, and at no great ditance from the hore, have the appearance of habitations, while the prickly pear-trees, and the torch thitles, look like their owners, tanding around them. In other parts, the hills rie o udden on the low land, that, having a mall offing, they appear to be o many eparate ilands. About four miles off the North Eat end, there is a mall ilet, which is connected by a reef with the main ile: it is covered with eals, and the breakers reach ome ditance from the hore. The highet land, at this part of the ile, is of a very moderate height, decending gradually to the hore, which conits, alternately of rocks, and and: ome, of the rocky parts, being much inulated, they form winding inlets, of two or three miles in depth, and from one to two cables in breadth.

At the ditance of two or three miles, to the Wetward of the ilet, I hove to, and ent the chief mate on hore to ound and land. At eight, P. M. he returned with green turtle and tortoies, turtle doves and guanas; but they aw no eculent