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mile. This huge Mountain is in the midft of a 

 long chain of iefler and lower ones that run in the 

 middle of the Ifland from the moft Wefterly part 

 of it almofl as far as the Salt-pond Hills, juft as 

 the backbone in a Fiih reaches from the tail to 

 the Head. 



17. But to proceed : we travelled upon this 

 narrow Rim, with a frightful Precipice on each 

 fide of us, for the Ipace of three hundred yards 

 (as near as I can recoiled: at this diftance of time) 

 South Weft, till we came to a very large fingle 

 Rock, that took up the entire Breadth of the Rim, 

 and of courfe obftrudted our farther paiTage there- 

 on. It was as equilateral, and almoft as fmooth 

 a triangular Pyramid, as if it had been cut out 

 by the Chizel of a fkilful Workman > and from 

 Angle to Angle, I believe it might meafure at 

 leaft {even or eight yards : it was fomewhat 

 blunted, or rather broken off at top, and about 

 one third part downwards from the top, it was 

 feemingly cracked quite thorough iideways : The 

 Rock was of a reddifh colour, refembling the red 

 part of Oriental Granite, and like Granite too fo 

 cxtreamly hard, that the Steel point of a fharp 

 Cutlafs would ( by help of the ftrongeft Arm ) 

 fcarce make a vifible impreffion on it. To be 

 rightly underftood, I muft inform you. That 

 Mount Mifery taking up ( on the Eaftern Side ) 

 the whole breadth of the Rim adjoyning to its 



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