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yards of high- water-mark. The reafon of this appears to be 

 that they grow upon the lower part of very high land, which caufes 

 an eddy to be formed about them when the wind blows from the 

 fea ; and by the fame high land they are proteded from the fouth 

 and fouthweft winds. The fituation might be reprefented thus ; 



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On the top of the rocks the wind rages with the greateft fury, 

 even the grafs feeming blighted, whereas below the rocks every 

 plant appears in a thriving ftate, and fome houfes fituated on the 

 lower part never have their thatched roofs difturbed by the 

 ftorms. In every other part along the coaft where land is of 



the 



