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rably. The cauliflowers and the melons o( his Excellency's 

 garden are admirable in their kind. 



Clay is difcovered, which makes good bricks ; but no lime- 

 ftone has as yet been found. As to fhell lime, the quantity 

 is fo fmall, that it is impoflible to colled: fufiicient for ufc. 

 How fatal are thefe defedis to the progrefs of architedture in Ho/- 

 landia Nova. Neither are there any hopes of its becoming a ma- 

 rine power, as it wants timber fit even to build a boat. Norfolk 

 IJIandy I fear, muft not only be its nurling mother, but the re- 

 fource for the fupport of its marine. 



Multitudes of nuts and, fruits of diftant regions are fre- Exotic Nuts, 

 quently flung in great abundance on this coaft, brought thither shore.^^ °*' 

 by the wind and waves, as thofe of the Antilles are to the fliores 

 of Norway, or the ScottiJJy Hebrides. Among them are cocoa- 

 nuts in abundance ; but all are covered with Bakini, or other 

 marine produdions, a fure fign of the length of the voyage. 

 They are fuppofed to have been brought by the trade winds, 

 which blow full on this fliore, and to have come from Terra del 

 Efpirito Santo, or the New Hebrides IJlandSy vifited by Captain 

 Cook in 1774. 



Let me now refume the coaft. At the fmall diftance of eight 

 miles to the north of Port Jack/on is Broken Bay, a name given Broken Bay. 

 by Captain Cook, when he pafled it by on his departure north- 

 wards. It was examined by Mr. Phillip in March 1788*, found 

 to be extenfive, and to have two mouths ; one impeded by a bar, 

 fo that the entrance is impervious except by fmall veflels ; the 

 other capable of admitting fliips of the greateft burden. The 

 land here was higher than that about Port Jack/on, more rocky, 



* Voy. p. 76. 



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