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 Egmont’s eagernes after omething new determined him to make inquiry after Falkland’s Iland, and he ent out Captain Byron, who, in the beginning of the year 1765, took, he ays, a formal poeion in the name of his Britannick Majety.

poeion of this place is, according to Mr. Byron’s repreentation, no depicable acquiition. He conceived the iland to be ix or even hundred miles round, and repreented it as a region naked indeed of wood, but which, if that defect were upplied, would have all that nature, almot all that luxury could want. The harbour he found capacious and ecure, and therefore thought it worthy of the name of Egmont. Of water there was no want, and the ground, he decribed as having all the excellencies of oil, and as covered with anticorbutick herbs, the retoratives of the ailor. Proviion was eaily to be had, for they