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the neareft, about three leagues from the cape, he named 



TFallis\ which lay before an harbor he called Go\ver''s. The Wallis's Isle. 



ifland was lofty, well wooded, and inhabited ; farther on were 



two coves, with freili water rivers falling into their bottom. 



About four leagues from fVa/hYs ifle, flill to the weft, was a good 



harbor, on which was beftov/ed the refpedtable name of the dif- 



coverer ; acrofs it lay Cocoa-nui ifle. On this coaft were trees of 



enorm.ous growth, all the kinds of palms, the betel tree, aloes, 



bamboos, rattans, a fruit the failors call a Jamaica plumb, and 



probably many of the tropical fruits and plants ; ha alfo found 



the nutmeg tree in plenty ; poflibly this place is its moft remote 



iltuation to the north. 



The country abounded with land birds, feemingiy the fame 

 with thofe of New Britain ; among them was a large black bird, 

 that made a noife like the barking of a dog, which I fuppofe to 

 have been a Bucei'os, 



Mr. Carteret purfued his own difcovery, and failed dire<5lly 

 weftward. He gave the name of _V^w Ireland to the ifland on New Ireland. 

 the northern lide, and diftinguiflied three capes on the fouthern 

 by the names of Buller, PalHfer^ and Stephens. Between cape Cape Stephen's; 

 Pallifer and cape Stephens^ is an ifland, to which Mr. Carteret 

 gave the nam.e of the Duke of 7ork% quite level, delicioufly 

 cloathed with lofty woods in the inland parts, and near the fliore 

 planted with cocoa groves, intermixed with the houfes of the 

 iflanders. 



To the eaft of cape Stephens-^ is in mid-channel an ifle he 

 called the ifle of Man. Cape Stephens is the fuppofed moft ex- 

 treme weftern point of New Britain ; all that fide, as far as cape 



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