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up. For all practical purposes, the nearest civilized 

 neighbours to Sandy Point are the English colonists 

 in the Falkland Islands, where, in spite of inhospitable 

 soil and climate, some of our countrymen have 

 managed to attain to tolerable prosperity, chiefly by 

 sheep-farming. But with an interval of nearly five 

 hundred miles of stormy ocean mutual intercourse is 

 neither easy nor frequent. 



