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tide. "When that retires, the furface is fecn to be compofed ^m- 

 of coral rock, with holes of yellowilh mud icattcred up and ■_ ,-._]» 

 down ; and toward the edges, where it is a little firmer, are 

 innumerable little openings, from which ilTue as many 

 fmall crabs, of two or three different forts, which fwarm 

 upon the fpot, as flies upon a carcafe; but are fo nimble, 

 that, on being approached, they difappear in an inilant, and 

 baiHe even the natives to catch any of them. 



At this place is a work of art, which fhews, that thefe people 

 are capable of fome defign, and perfeverance, when they 

 mean to accomplifh any thing. This work begins, on one fide, 

 as a narrow caufeway, which, becoming gradually broader, 

 rifes, with a gentle afcent, to the height of ten feet, where 

 it is five paces broad, and the whole length feventy-four 

 paces. Joined to this is a fort of circus, whofe diameter is 

 thirty paces, and not above a foot or two higher than the 

 caufeway that joins it, with fome trees planted in the 

 middle. On the oppofice fide, another caufeway of the fame 

 fort defcends ; but this is not above forty paces long, and 

 is partly in ruin. The whole is built with large coral 

 flones, with earth on the furface, which is quite overgrown 

 with low trees and fhrubs ; and, from its decaying in feve- 

 ral places, feems to be of no modern dare. Whatever may 

 have been its ufe formerly, it feems to be of none now ; 

 and all that we could learn of it from the natives was, that 

 it belonged to Poulaho, and is called Etched'' 



On the i6th, in the morning, after vifiring the feveral Monday 16. 

 works now carrying on afliore, Mr. Gore, and I, took a walk 

 into the country ; in the courfe of which nothing remark- 

 able appeared, but our having opportunities of feeing the 

 whole procefs of making cloth, w4iich is the principal 



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