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cultivated slope. Between it and its neighhoring isle, called by the surveyors Perry, after the 

 Commodore, is a little bay, upon the inland shores of which there is a considerable quarry of 

 stone that the Japanese have extensively worked. Large blocks were lying about, and the 

 rocky precipices of the shore were hewn into good walls of a smooth surface, from which the 

 masses of stone had been cut with a regularity that showed much skill. There were other 

 evidences about of the busy industry of the Japanese ; there were various boat building yards, 

 with junks dragged ashore for repairs, with workmen actively at work over their hulls, and 

 various docks and landing places constructed of stone, and showing the careful industry and no 

 little skill of the people. 





Mia or Roiid Side Ch:i.ptfl, a,t Yoku-haina. 



At four o'clock in the morning of the 18th of April tlie Commodore finally got under way 

 for Simoda, in the Powhatan, accompanied by the Mississippi, and anchored in that port at ten 

 minutes past three in the afternoon of the same day. The Mississippi dropped her anchor off 



