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pect, and appeared to be well inhabited. We were told that '"9- 



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it produces very few plantains, and bread-fruit trees ; 

 but that it abounds in roots, fuch as yams, fweet potatoes, 

 and tarrow. 



Woahoo lies to the North Weft of Morotoi, at the diflance 

 of about feven leagues. As far as we could judge, from the 

 appearance of the North Eafl and North Weft parts (for we 

 faw nothing of the Southern fide), it is by far the fineft 

 ifland of the whole group. Nothing can exceed the verdure 

 of the hills, the variety of wood and lawn, and rich culti- 

 vated vallies, which the whole face of the country dis- 

 played. Having already given a defcription of the bay, 

 formed by the North and Weft extremities, in which we 

 came to anchor, I have only to oblerve, that in the bight of 

 the bay, to the South of the anchoring-place, we found 

 rocky foul ground, two miles from the more. Should the 

 ground tackling of a fhip be weak, and the wind blow 

 itrong from the North, to which quarter the road is entirely 

 open, this circumftance might be attended with fome dan- 

 ger ; but with good cables there would be little rifk, as the 

 ground from the anchoring-place, which is oppofite to the 

 valley through which the river runs, to the North point, is a 

 fine fand. 



Atooi lies to the North Weft of Woahoo, and is diflant 

 from it about twenty-five leagues. The face of the country, 

 to the North Eaft and North Weft, is broken and ragged ; 

 but to the South it is more even ; the hills rife with a gen- 

 tle flope from the fea-fide, and, at fome diftance back, are 

 covered with wood. Its productions are the fame with thofe 

 of the other iflands; but the inhabitants far furpafs all the 

 neighbouring iilanders in the management of their plant- 



Q^2 ations. 



