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1779- ations. In the low grounds, adjoining to the bay where we 

 lay at anchor, thefe plantations were divided by deep and 

 regolar ditches ; the fences' were made with a neatnefs 

 approaching to elegance, and the roads through them were 

 thrown up and finished, in a manner that would have done 

 credit to any European engineer. 



Oneeheow lies five leagues to the Weflward of Attooi. 

 The Eaftern coaft is high, and rifes abruptly from the fea, 

 but the reft of the iiland confifts of low ground; excepting a 

 round bluff head on the South Eaft point. It produces 

 abundance of yams, and of the fv/eet root called Tee; but we 

 got from it no other fort of provifions. 



Oreehoua, and Talioora, are two fmall iflands in the 

 neighbourhood of Oneeheow. The former is a fingle 

 high hummock, joined by a reef of coral rocks to the North- 

 ern extremity of Oneeheow. The latter lies to the South. 

 Eaft, and is uninhabited. 



The climate of the Sandwich Iflands differs very little 

 from that of the Weft India Iflands, which lie in the fame 

 latitude. Upon the whole, perhaps, it may be rather more 

 temperate. The thermometer, on more in Karakakooa Bay,, 

 never rofe higher than 88°, and that but one day ; its mean 

 height, at noon, was 83 . In Wymoa Bay, its mean height 

 at noon was 76*, and when out at fea, 75*. The mean 

 height of the thermometer at noon, in Jamaica, is about 86% 

 at fea 8o°. 



Whether they be fubjccl: to the fame violent winds and 

 hurricanes, we could not difcover, as we were not there in 

 any of the ftormy months. However, as the natives gave 

 us no pofnive tcftimony of the fact, and no traces of their 

 effects were any where vifiblc, it is probable that, in this 



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