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‘miles long and 9 wide. ‘The prin- 
cipal town is called Villa de Horta, before which is the 
semicircular bay or road of Fayal, about two miles 
an aed spree cede bea 
town, according to 
is West Long. 28° 41’ 48”, and North Lat. 38° 30’ 55”. 
See Azores, for a account of the Islands. 
FE ps Bocora Santa. See SANTA FE DE Bocora. 
FEATHERS... See Anatomy Comparative, and 
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year 1794, Captain Barber saw six islands in 
western part of the p; and having anchored in 
bay on the western side of the largest one, his. ship 
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which were soon He found the navigation 
very difficult. and in Cook was in- 
formed that Feejee wasa but fertile island, abound- 
ing in hogs, dogs, fowls, and all kinds of fruits. 
ithe F ns are a distinct race from the inhabitants 
of Ti speaking erent language, and ma- 
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‘resembles a truncated cone, and incloses a hollow 
40 feet deep, and about 2640 in ci called the 
Ditch of Fern, which is now in cultivation. It is sup-~ 
posed - to have been anciently the crater 
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from whose lava the island was formed. The soil is Felicuda. 
composed of. half pulverulent tufa, resting 
There is alsoa email isolated hill, to the south-east of the 
principal mountain, and about ‘half its height. It has 
the appearance of a broken cone, trun at the top, 
where it forms a hollow owing towards the bottom, 
and eed 6 PRE of lava imbedded in earthy tufa : 
the exterior e hill is lava. - ; 
Though yet unprovided with a lar harbour, Fe- 
licuda has two bays, the one on lie dontli the other on 
a ev ded side of the island, by one or other of 
which a landing may easily be effected, in any direction 
of the wind. A “A if 
The shore is almost wholly composed of various Ide Minerals. 
we — eather bay have eaters: base 
a lig elspar ; include needles of black 
Gnd Thseeas aches with small on nselbeminbpsaniben cr 
. Ime many parts. they resemble 
Perec Sen ddeeant o ity of their va- 
cuities, the production of which been ascribed to 
the action of gas, when the lava was in a state of fusion. 
About a hundred and fifty paces to the left of the bay 
stands a fine rock of prismatic lava, 30 feet high. From 
the top downwards itis perfectly smooth, to about 12 feet 
abovethe surface of the sea, where it begins to assume the 
prismatic form, dividing into a number of three-sided 
isms, and continuing this form under water. The 
of this lava is an.extremely: compact iron-coloured 
hornstone. It contains a great number of small rhom- 
boidal schorls, with some grains of amorphous felspar. 
A little farther to the left, is the Grotta del Bove Ma- 
rino ; the entrance is 60 feet in breadth, and above 40 
in height : it forms a kind of porch, which conducts to 
ahall 200 feet long, 120 broad, and 65 in height.’ It 
a PCH RE PN Nec RE BRIE ee 
porous schorl ; it is ofa colour, interspersed wi 
white shining rhomaboidal felspars, and is magnetic at 
the distance of half a line, but its power is increased 
by fusion : like the rock mentioned, it sepa- 
rates into prisms before eo water. Beyond 
this cavern is a high ipice, which descends into the 
sea, and is. oieasmnantenae alternate beds of lava 
and ‘Spallanzani counted .eleven of each. The 
remaining part of the shore consists chiefly of pris< 
matic lavas, having for their base the hornstone and 
schorl in the mass. “za 
The lavas of the interior are of three different kinds, 
of two of which the base is hornstone, and of the third 
converts them into a vitreous froth. The pumices are 
ity,,and always in very detached 
are of two kinds; the one light and po« 
rous, the other, entirely without pores, of a smooth 
fracture, and of considerable weight and 
Taaeasenliiaisanleaetnovsedcpellemnandaaiiaieg: 
All of them with very brilliant scales: of vi- 
treous felspar, and in the furnace contract into a shin- 
ing black enamel, interspersed with the whitish scales 
the felspar. 
The climate of Felicuda is bracing and healthy ; the Climate. 
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