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any thing, it being difficult to fupport even 

 the cloaths upon one's back, efpecially as 

 walking is fo difficult. He who choofes to 

 walk here mud wear {hoes with thick foles ; 

 and muft notwithstanding expect to bring ach- 

 ing feet home at night. If the (tony Arabia 

 is like this place, I pity thofe who are forced 

 to wander through it. 



There are feveral great hills on this ifland, 

 which confift of the abovementioned earth 

 and coarfe black ifh brown fand : in the latter 

 lie larger or fmaller pumice-ftones b , which 

 are dangerous to walk on, as by their rolling 

 down one may break one's limbs. 



As foon as we got on fhore I went to a conic 

 mountain a good way off the place where we 

 landed. It was deep, and of difficult accefs, be- 

 caufe with each ftep the fand and Hones rolled 

 down : the heat increafed, and I was forced 

 to reft feveral times. In my opinion, this 

 mountain was quite as large as our Kinnekulle . 

 Neither on the fides, nor at the top, did I 

 meet with one fmgle plant ; on the fummit, 

 where the air was very cool, flood a pole 



Puraex cupri. Maf. TefT. 79. 2. 



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