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pearances n[ lava, and at its northern pxtremity a 

 cavern wa« sliewn me, which 1 visited on several 

 occasions, and carefully measured. It was at one 

 time, I doubt not, the vent of a now extinct volcano. 



The mouth of the cavern is towards the sea. Its 

 dimensions are : Length, 85 feet ; average breadth, 

 7 feet ; height, at higest part, 12 feet ; average 

 height 9 feet. 



At the inner extremity, on the right there is a 

 chamber, twelve feet long, and nine feet broad ; and 

 on the floor along the sides, and near the entrance of 

 the cavern, there are patches of pure lava, exceedingly 

 hard, which to the eye, have all the appearance of 

 being still in a liquid state, and as if flowing down the 

 cavern towards the sea. 



This island, of Cousine is the property of a very 

 hospitable and intelligent Creole, who lias raised 

 himself to a kind of patriarchal position of comfort 

 and prosperity, by the sweat of his brow. 



He has built himself there an homely, comfortable 

 dwelling, with a fair surrounding of out-houses, and is 

 in reality, wh^t Robinson Crusoe was only in poetry, 

 " monarch of all he surveys." 



The Island contains an immense number of sea 

 birds, which make their nests in the holes of the rocks, 

 and on the trees, and the latter being of no great 

 height, though covered with foliage, it is pretty, in 

 walking along, to see, just over-head, and often within 

 reach of tho hand, S(^vernl nesis on nearly every 



