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REMARKS ON the 



ISLANDS, or when free, fhewing their fnowy heads at more than twenty oi* 



thirty leagues diflance. The lower hills of the fame iflands are al- 

 moft every where covered with woods and foreils, and none but the 



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higher fummits appear to be barren. 



T:ierra del Fuego as far as we could difcover, appears to be a cltifler 



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of ifles interfered by various deep founds and channels. The land 

 confifls of craggy, iDleak and ileep rocks, whofe fummits are covered 

 with eternal fnow, efpecially in thofe interior parts which are lefs 

 expofed to the mild and humid air of the fea. Its Eaflernmoft fide 

 about the flreights le Maire, has an eafy flope, and is in fome parts 

 wooded. Staten Land has the fame appearance as the barren part 

 of Tierra del Fuego : nor was the fnow wanting in the beginning of 



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January or the very height of fummer. 



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Southern Georsila is an ille of about eighty leagues in extent, con- 



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filling of high hills, none of which were free from fnow in the mid- 

 die of January, except a fev^ rocks towards the fea : and the bottoms 



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of all its harbours we found filled with ice. 



The laft land we faw in thefe cold, difmal regions we called Sand- 

 ^joich Land, and the Southernmoftpartof it, Southern T^hule, All this 



land or duller of iiles, is full of ice and entirely covered with fnow. 



Figris ubi nulla cam pis 

 Arbor cejliva recreatur aura : 

 ^od latus mundt, nebulce, mahfque 



'Jupiter ur get, HoR. lib. i. Od. XXIL 



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