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preceding the 14th of Odober having been 

 fufficiently cahn to permit me to make the 

 circuit of it in my boat without danger. 



I (hall here, therefore, fpecify the princi- 

 pal products I difcovered during my circuit 

 round the fhore of the ifland ; this being 

 the part which, more than any other, muft 

 intereft the philofophical naturalift. I fhall 

 not name the places where I found them, 

 fmce two of the inhabitants who accompa- 

 nied me were unable to aflign any names 

 by which they were known ; the different 

 parts of the fhore of the ifland having in 

 fa.0: no fixed names : I fhall only indicate 

 their diftances froni the place whence I fet 

 out. 



At the diftance of forty paces from that 

 part of the ifland which fronts the eafl:, we 

 begin to find, as we turr^ towards the north, 

 entire rocks, formed of globes of a blackifh 

 lava, with a petrofiliceous bafe, which, 

 though porous, is heavy from the compacft- 

 Kefs of the folid parts, which have a little 

 K ^ luftre, 



