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*779- Koaara extends from the Wefternmofl: point to the Nor- 



March. . . . , 



thcrn extremity or the mand ; the whole coalt between them 

 forming an extenfive bay, called Toe-yah-yah, which is 

 bounded to the North by two very confpicuous hills. To- 

 ward the bottom of this bay there is foul, corally ground, 

 extending upward of a mile from the more, without which 

 the foundings are regular, with good anchorage, in twenty 

 fathoms. The country, as far as the eye could reach, 

 feemed fruitful and well inhabited, the foil being in appear- 

 ance of the fame kind with the diAridt of Kaoo ;. but no frefh 

 water is to be got here. 



I have hitherto confined myfelf to the coafts of this ifland, 

 and the adjacent country, which is all that I had an oppor- 

 tunity of being acquainted with from my own obfervation. 

 The only account I can give of the interior parts, is from, 

 the information I obtained from a party, who fet out, on 

 the afternoon of the 26th of January, on an expedition up 

 the country, with an intention of penetrating as far as they 

 could ; and principally of reaching, if poffible, the fnowy 

 mountains. 



Having procured two natives to ferve them as guides, 

 they left the village about four o'clock in the afternoon, 

 directing their courfe a little to the Southward of the Eaft. 

 To the diflance of three or four miles from the bay, they 

 found the country as before defcribed ; the hills afterward 

 rofe with a more fudden afcenr, which brought them to the 

 extenfive plantations, that terminate the view of the country, 

 as fecn from the fhips. 



Thefc plantations confift of the * tarrow or eddy root, 

 and the fwect potatoc, with plants of the cloth-tree, neatly 



fet 



* Both the fvvect potatoes, and the tarrow, are here planted four feet from c;ch 

 ether : the former was earthed up alinoft to the top of the ftalk, with about half a 



bufhel 



