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own way, (here would not have remained a 

 ilngle cocoa-nut tree on the ifland; and this an- 

 chorage would have been deprived, perhaps for 

 ever, of thefe refources, which are fo welcome to 

 navigators. 



. Night overtook us in the middle of the woods, 

 and we enjoyed the pleating view of a prodi- 

 gious quantity of glow-worms, that, in their 

 flight, diffufed a tremulous gleam, by which 

 we were more dazzled than lighted. 



This was the hour at which the fpecies of 

 crab called cancer rur'icola iflued from the holes 

 that it had dug. We trod on many of thefe 

 crabs in returning to the place where the boat 

 was waiting lor us; and feveral perfons of our 

 party, before they knew what they had fet their 

 foot on, were afraid that it was fome venomous 

 animal. 



The next day, the 1 8th, I vifited the fouth- 

 caft part of Cocoa-nut Ifland: different creep- 

 ing plants prevented me from penetrating very 

 far into thefe fori 



Various fpecies of efutendrwn adorned the 

 trunks of the thickeft trees, and grew in the 

 mid ft of a jrrcat number of ferns which were 

 illy parafitiral. 



Along the coaft I taw floating various fpecies 

 of pajidanus, of the barrhiglon'ni fpcc'iofa, and of 

 the heriticra, the trees of which fhot forth their 



branches. 



