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foot, and that this triangular Pyramid doing the 

 fame on the Weftern Side, we could walk but 

 half way round it on the North Side which we 

 went up on, and confequently that ( befides the 

 lower Woods, Plantations, Houfes and Gardens) 

 we could from thence fee nothing but the Atlan- 

 tick Ocean and the Ifland of St. Bartholomew : 

 whereas, if a man goes up on the South Side of 

 this Mountain, in a bright and clear Day, he has 

 a diflindl view of the Illands of Nevis ^ Mcntferraf^ 

 Eujiachia and Saba that are two Dutch Settle- 

 ments, befides the lower Woods, Plantations, 

 Houfes and Gardens in that Quarter of the Ifland, 

 becaufe he may walk in a Semicircle from Mount 

 Mifery quite to the triangular Pyramid on his fide 

 of the Top, as we did on ours. 



18. At the Bafe Angle adjoyning to the vafl: 

 Cavity grew a large and thick fpreading bufh, 

 through which we ventured to defcend one after 

 another, laying all along upon our Bellies, and to 

 carefully Aiding down fourteen or fifteen yards 

 lower ftill by the help of fome wild China Roots 

 which we clung faft to, till we got fafe to more 

 Bulhes, that lafl:ed for twenty or thirty yards 

 farther : By which time, we found ourfelves 

 fecurely landed in a Wood of wild Bonanoes, 

 that opportunely to our thirft, were ready to 

 gratify our Palate with moft clear and excellent 

 Water, which ran out from them, upon fl:icking 



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