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of a soft spongy nature, unfit for fuel while green, and 

 useless as timber ; one species only affording a wood as 

 hard as lignum vitse, and proper for the same purpose ; 

 the larsrest size we found it arrive at, was that of a man's 



body. 



The miscellaneous information I was able to collect here, 

 I shall sive without attention to arrangement of the matter, 

 which my time at this moment does not permit. 



This is the winter of the country, the thermometer in the 

 day seldom rising above 76, and at night, when there are 

 occasionally (not always) heavy dews, falling to 60. The 

 mornings, from sun-rise to 9 or 10 o'clock, are dark, 

 hazy, and sometimes foggy. The winds in the morning 

 are often lisht from south to S. W. The sea breezes set 

 in very irregularly fi-om noon till 4 o'clock, from west to 

 W. S. W.; they have seldom any considerable force more 

 than once a week, and are stronger after a hazy morning, 

 succeeded by a hot sun ; they die away from sunset to 

 10 o'clock. The natives feel the changes of temperature 

 very severely, shivering with cold when the sea breeze sets 

 in fresh. 



Salt is the great object of trade at the Market point, and 

 is made near the river's mouth, and brought up by canoes 

 in baskets of the substance that covers the trunk of the 



