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CRUSOE'S ISLAND. 



the island. I could see the outlying islets and the 

 foam-flecked promontories that guarded my seaside 

 home, as well as vast areas of forest, covering swell- 

 ing hills and deepening valleys. 



Among the palm trunks there was space sufficient 

 for the erection of a small house, and I then and 

 there marked out the plan of it. Then, refreshing 

 myseK with the glorious view again, and inhaling 



The Tobago Trogoii. 



deep draughts of the sweet, pure air, I descended to 

 the stream. Like Crusoe, after he had made his 

 famous excursion to th^ other side of his island, " I 

 found that side of the Island where 1 now was much 

 pleasanter than mine; the open or savanna Fields 

 sweet and adorned with Flowers and Grass, and full 

 of very fine Woods. I saw abundance of Parrots, 



