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 novelty or beauty: they were the fly-catcher and creeper, like thoe of New Zealand; a bird, reembling the mall mocking bird, of the ame iland; a black hawk, omewhat larger than our parrow hawks, and a bird of the ize and hape of our black-bird. Ringdoves, of a duky plumage, were een in the greatet number: they eldom approached the ea till un-et, when they took their flight to the Wetward, and at un-rie returned to the Eatward; o that if there is any water on the ile, I hould uppoe it would be found in that part. Beides, it is the highet land, and a mall quantity of water, lodged in the hollow of a rock, would upply thee birds for a coniderable time. My econd viit, to thee iles confirmed, my uppoition, as mall oozings, were then found, at the foot of two or three hills, which may be occaioned by pools of rain water collected on the tops of them, as is frequently een on the North Wet coat of America. An officer and party, whom I ent to travel inland, aw many pots, which had very lately contained freh water, and about which, the land tortoies appeared to be pining in great numbers. Several of them, were een within land, as well as on the ea coat, which, if they had been in fleh, would have weighed three hundred weight, but were now carcely one third of their full ize.