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Teak- wood, tettonagrand'is, that fine tree fo va* 

 luable for the conft ruction or mips, grows at Car- 

 teret's Harbour. I alfo faw there various fpecief 

 of guet tarda and a new fpecies of hernahdia, 



Moifes and ferns were very numetou , and 

 grew in the fulleil vigour in thefe moifr ipots. 



The well coail of Cocoa-nut Ifland is ''teep, 

 and riies very high al ovc the water. The calca- 

 reous (tones, o( which it is formed, are very much 

 expo, d to the iiitlemency of the weather; ac- 

 cordingly thev break, off with facility. I there 

 found the nutmeg-tree whicji Ruinphius has de- 

 fcribed under the denomination of myrifiica mas 

 (Rumph. Amb. vol. 11. tab. 5). The fruit was as 

 yet in no great n.r wardnefs. It is more donga; ^ J 

 than the cultivated fpecies. 



Doubtlefs fome favage had perifhed in the 

 midft of thefe rocks, for I found here a human 

 Ikclcton almoft entire. 



Hard by was a fpot where I obfcrved the 

 marks of a fire, which had been lighted by the 

 favagos who land on this coaft. 



The continual rains at Carteret's Harbour have 



there rendered fome fpecies of fpiders very induf- 



trious: I faw fcveral that bad made thcmfelves 



excellent retreats in the middle- of their web: 



is of a very clofe tcxture y in the form of a fu- 



-loaf, two centimeters high bj a demi-centime- 



I the bafe, having the point railed and 



a little 



