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!i almoft entirely covered it, efpecially to- 

 be north; Humes were fecn in dif- 

 -, and it was foon difcovered that 

 the forcfts were in a blaze ; the traces of the 

 and the fmoke which appeared fucceftively 

 in different places, exhibited the progrefs ot" t..e 

 conflagration. We fhaped our courfe lb as to 

 pais as near as poflible to windward of the 

 ifiand : the fame fpecies of bids that we had 

 fecn a few hours before we got light of it, were 

 Sj in great numbers round the rucks, which 

 feryed them as a retreat. A great many fcals 

 were fwimming in the midft of the large heaps 

 a v. red detached from the coaft, the fouth 

 fide of which wc ranged along, at the diftance 

 of a drmi-kilomcter. This lieep coafl: is very 

 the fca followed the direction of it, and 

 would have apprifed us of the danger of ap- 

 proaching it, had it been ikirtcd by fhoals. 

 Rocks, inclined about 50 from north to fouth, 

 and which I took to be compofed of ftrata of 

 frce-fionc, formed the mountains to the fouth- 

 weft, which exhibited great declivities as far as 

 ' . : rooto the fouth, were feen 

 horizontal flrata of the fame fpecies of iione; 

 final 1 rivulet, the waters of 

 I into the fca, forming a cafcade. Per- 

 es of rock exhibited, on a large 

 iofe Grange forms known under the de- 



nomina- 



