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quired our united efforts to difengage him. lit. 

 mar.y parts the road was fo fteep that I, though 

 vanity flatter^ me with being a fkilful horfeman, 

 could with difficulty keep my feat j nor is this 

 all, for the trees over-hang the way in fuch a> 

 manner, tha-t during many hours we were forced 

 to crouchp down upon our horfes necks, and in 

 that painful pofture ue had ta afcend and de- 

 fccnd precipices^ 



We marched to*afpecics of mufic every way 

 adapted to the rugged fcenes around us ; the 

 roaring of different favage hearts, and thehifTing 

 of ferpents. were heard every moment; but 

 though we often judged from the horrid founds 

 that they were very near us, we faw none. After 

 a mod troubleforae and fatiguing march we 

 reached a whale fifhcry, about eleven or twelve 

 leagues from St. Catharine's, a Mttle after fun- 

 fet. 



Here we were- kindly received by the fupcr- 

 intendant, apparently an intelligent man ; he 

 inhabited an excellent houfe, the beft I had till 

 then fee n in the country, and fliewed us all the 

 works and buildings belonging to the place. 

 From the complaints he made againfl the 

 Britilh whale-fifhers, it fhould feem that in this 

 place they fenfibly, and to their lofs, feel the 

 cffe6ls of the induflry and adivity of my coun- 

 trymen. 



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