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fimilar to wood, that without a knife it was 

 impoffible to diftinguirh whether it was flone 

 or wood. After we had been quite fpent with 

 the unfpeakable heat, fuch as I had never ex- 

 perienced before, we reached, with fome diffi- 

 culty, the place where we had landed, and 

 regaled our parched bodies* Afterwards, I 

 found on the mountains along the more : 



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At laft we went about the Crofs-bay, over 

 feveral mountains, to a little creek, where our 

 floop waited for us. As I was juft going 

 upon this dangerous road, over a heap of 

 flones which by little and little had roiled 

 down the hill, a huge ftone rolled down, and 

 was within an hair's breadth of making an 

 end of me j but I happily efcaped, although 

 in the greateft confternauon. In this bay- 

 boats can land very fecurely, and lie very 

 quietly ; for it is furrounded with rocks on 

 both fides, which hinders the water from beat- 

 ing againft the more with fuch violence. 

 Though here is but little land, yet a frip is 

 tm, to have caught eighteen lonoifes in one 

 H 2 night- 



