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ACQUIES. 



Natives of 

 Jeso. 



JAPAN. 



*' September, and end in March, and then the foutherly winds be- 

 ** gin to blow." 



The account given by tlie commander of the Cajiricom, con- 

 curs in a great meafure with the above. The author of the 

 Recueil de Voyages au Nord, vol. iv. has preferved the voyage. It 

 appears that the captain had landed in feveral places ; that in Lat. 

 44° 30', he found the country very mountanous and high, co- 

 vered with lofty trees, many of which were fit for mails ; the 

 foil very clayey and wet, and near the fliores covered with brufh- 

 wood ; it was reported that there were feveral rich filver mines. 



In Lat. 45° 10', at a place called Acquies, the land was very 

 high, and covered with trees. The foil clayey, but producing 

 good fruits, fuch as mulberries, red and white goofeberries, 

 rafpberries, &c. alfo oaks and other kinds of trees, and in the 

 vallies lilies of a vaft height. The rivers are bordered by ruflies, 

 and alfo with red rofes. 



In Lat. 46° 30', he fell into a great gulph abounding with 

 falmon, the fhore was covered with vegetables, and had the ap- 

 pearance of the coafts of England; but the natives neither cul- 

 tivated the ground, nor made any advantage of their rich foil. 

 The moft northern part of the range which he touched at on 

 this coaft, was in Lat. 48° 50', where he found the land rife into 

 little hills cloathed with herbage ; and met with good ancho- 

 rage, in from 25 to 40 fathoms depth, with a bottom of fand. 



He fpeaks in general of the inhabitants of the coaft oijefo as 

 being ftrong and fquare made, fhort and grofs, their hair 

 and beard long, and the laft fo thick as almoft to cover their 

 whole face ; their bodies likewife very hairy ; the hair on the 



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