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landed on the main, and ascended the hills that form 
the Fidler’s Elbow of Maxwell, which are also composed 
entirely of slate, with vast masses of quartz on the surface, 
and with only thinly scattered bushes of a shrubby tree, of 
which the natives make their spoons. ‘These spoons are 
made with great neatness, and not inferior in any respect to 
the same utensil in many parts of Europe. Their knives, 
too, are not to be despised, but the blades are not always 
made by themselves ; though they always prefer their own 
hafts and sheaths. These articles are here represented. 
The ant hills were here extremely numerous, but now un- 
occupied, it appearing that these insects shift their habita- 
tions to the trees in this season; those on the ground have 
