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riety of wood and lawn, and rich cultivated valleys, 

 which the whole face of the country displayed. 

 Having already given a description of the bay, form- 

 ed by the north and west extremities, in which we 

 came to anchor, I have only to observe, that in the 

 bight of the bay, to the south of the anchoring-place, 

 we found rocky foul ground, two miles from the 

 shore. Should the ground tackling of a ship be weak, 

 and the wind blow strong from the north, to which 

 quarter the road is entirely open, this circumstance 

 might be attended with some danger ; but with good 

 cables there would be little risk, as the ground from 

 the anchoring-place, which is opposite to the valley 

 through which the river runs to the north point, is 

 a fine sand. 



Atooi lies to the north-west of Woahoo, and is 

 distant from it about twenty-five leagues. The face 

 of the country to the north-east and north-west is 

 broken and ragged ; but to the south it is more even ; 

 the hills rise with a gentle slope from the sea side, 

 and, at some distance back, are covered with wood. 

 Its productions are the same with those of the other 

 islands ; but the inhabitants far surpass all the neigh- 

 bouring islanders in the management of their plant- 

 ations. In the low grounds, adjoining to the bay 

 where we lay at anchor, these plantations were 

 divided by deep and regular ditches ; the fences were 

 made with a neatness approaching to elegance, and 

 the roads through them were thrown up and finished, 

 in a manner that would have done credit to any Euro- 

 pean engineer. 



Oneeheow lies five leagues to the westward of 

 Atooi. The eastern coast is high, and rises abruptly 

 from the sea, but the rest of the island consists of low 

 ground ; excepting a round bluff head on the south- 

 east point. It produces abundance of yams, and of 

 the sweet root called Tee; but we got from it no 

 other sort of provisions. 



