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t.il and parallel ftrata of a whitifli, and no 

 doubt calcareous ftone, of which it is formed. 

 The interior exhibited great precipices. Trees 

 iverc J'een upon the moft lofty fummits, 



A fnoalj -ituatcd quite clofc to the coafl op. 

 the norih-wel'i lide, cxccnded to at kail: fix 

 hundred meters in the fame direction. 



Kight rocks, fornc hundreds of meters diilant 

 from eaeh other, itretched out into tlie fea, to 

 the diihuicc of a denii-rnyriameter, to the eail 

 foutli-eafr. 



Betv, een the north-v.cfl point, and the 

 wefi: point, we remarked a fmall bight, where 

 probably would be found very good anchoring 

 ground ; a fhip would be perfcclly fheltered 

 there from eallerly winds. 



We faw, betv.een the north- v. eft and fouth- 

 eafi points, a little rivulet that difcharged itfelf 

 into tb.e fea, and at a fmall diftance, in a per- 

 pend; -ulai" fpct, was perceived a great block of 

 earth, of a pretty <\k:<^\^ red colour, which was 

 perh.'j^s a clay, and which appeared as if in- 

 crullated in the calcareous ftone. 



On t!:e 22d of iVIarch, about nine o'clock in 

 the cvcnlnf^, v. e entered the torrid zone, in the 

 longitude of 1S4* eali : this was the fourth time 

 tiiit wc had prilled tliC tropic of Capricorn. 



'\\\z next day, the 23d, at one o'clock in the 

 ifrtraoon, wc difcovcred Kooa, one ot the 



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