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pelago, and to fee if there was no pafTage to 

 the eaftward, between the fhoals ; he was alfo 

 to look out for a convenient watering place. I 

 ardently wifhed to be one on fuch an expedition ; 

 but as geographical operations are little connect- 

 ed with the refcarches of natural ifts, we were 

 not apprized of the hour of departure, for which 

 every thing was arranged fo privately, that I 

 knew nothing of the matter, till the moment 

 \vhenthe boat was rowing away from the fhip. 



The impoflibility of having a boat to carry me 

 to the main land determined me to go and l'pend 

 this day on the iflot to the fouth-wefr, the coaft 

 of which I followed, firft proceeding to the 

 north- weft. It was not long before I reached 

 one of the moft lofty fummits, where I found a 

 little dream of frefh water, ifluing from the clefts 

 of a rock of granite; we were overjoyed at tln3 

 difcovery, for we had for fome time been reduced 

 to a very fcanty allowance. 



Hard by I perceived fome cavities, filled with 

 very clear water, which I had reafon to think as 

 frefh as that which was flowing from the rock, 

 for it was upwards of two hundred meters per- 

 pendicular above the level of the fea. I was 

 mi (taken ; it was very fait ; and farther on, other 

 excavations, filled with the fame water, exhibited 

 on their margins, cryftals of marine fait, in ra- 

 ther thin lamhhc, which at fome diilance re~ 



fembled 



