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pleafed, if I prefent to him, in this place, an idea 

 of that branch of the hydraulic architecture of Na- 

 ture. Among a great number of curious examples, 

 which I might produce to this purpole, and which 

 I have collected, as an addition to my materials 

 on the fubjed of Geography, I beg leave to prefent 

 one, which 1 have extracted, not from a fyftematic 

 Phiiofop /•'•>, but from a fimple and unaffectedly 

 fprightiy traveller of the laft age, who relates 

 things as he I . :'<n, and without pretending to 



deduce confequences of any kind whatever. It is 

 a defcription of the fummits of the lfland of Bour- 

 bon, fituatcd in the Indian Ocean, extending to 

 the - nrft degree of South Latitude. Il is 



copied from the writings of Mt de Fillers, who was 

 then Governor of that ifland, under the Eaft-India' 

 Company. It is published in the journals of the 

 firft voyages made by our French Navigators into 

 Arabia-Felix, about the year 1709, and given to 

 the World by M. de la Roque, See that Work, 

 page 201. 



1£ Of thofe plains," fays M. de Fillers, which 

 are upon the mountains (of Bourbon), " the mof£ 

 " remarkable, though no account has hitherto 

 " been given of it, is that to which they have 

 <c given the name of the Plain of the Cafres, from 

 ** a tribe of that People, Haves to the inhabitants 

 (C of the lfland, who went thither to conceal them- 



" felves, 





