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" Dame at Paris. They are put down like pins 

 " on the fkittle- ground, and the refemblance is 

 " fo ftrong, that you may eafily miftake on reck- 

 " oning them : they go by the name of pitons 

 " (pins). If you wifh to flop by one of thofe 

 *' eminences to take reft, fuch of your company as 

 " are not inclined to repofe, but want to go for- 

 <f ward, muft not withdraw fo much as two hun- 

 " dred paces, otherwife they will be in great dan- 

 * c ger of not finding again the point of feparation, 

 •' thefe pins are fo many in number, all fimilar 

 " in form, and fo much arranged in the fame 

 " manner, that the Creoles, who are native there, 

 " are themfelves liable to miftake. 



" For this reafon it is, that, in order to prevent 

 u the unpleafant confequences of fuch an error, 

 u when a company of travellers take ftation at 

 " one of the pins, if any are difpofed to make a 

 " farther excurfion, they leave a perfon at the 

 " place of rendezvous, to make a fire, or raife a 

 " fmoke, which may ferve to direct, and bring 

 " back the ftrayers ; and if the fog be Jo thick* 

 " which is frequently the cafe, as to hinder the fire 

 " or the fmoke from being feen, they provide 

 <c themfelves with a kind of large (hells, one of 

 " which is left with him who keeps ftation at the 

 " pin j another is carried off by the feparating 

 " party ; and when they with to return, fome one 



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