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STRATA, of the fame nature, near a cafcade formed by the river Mataimu 



there are pillars of a grey, folid bafaltes, (nit rum bafaltinum Linn.) 

 and here and there I faw fragments of black folid bafaltes or para- 



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gone, which the natives commonly employ to make their pafte beat- 

 ers, hatchets, chiffels and cutting tools. At 0-Aite-peha the natives 



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brought me on board a kind of pyrites having the exad form of a 

 iftaladtite, 'or of a fubftance that had been melted and congealed 



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while running down. The exigence of fulphureous pyrites confirm.s 

 the account I was favoured with by the learned and ingenious Dr. 

 Cafimiro Gomez Ortega, F.R.S. the King of Spain's Botanift, and In- 



tendant of the botanical garden at Madrid, intimating that the Spanifh 

 men of war, which had been at O-Taheitee, brought from thence 



now 



At the 



a large mafs of the fineft cryilalline tranfparent native fulph 

 placed in the royal cabinet of natural hiflory at Madrid, 

 top of the numerous valleys, which interfeit thefe illes, are large, 

 rocky maffes, black and cavernous, full of various white and other 

 fpecks of fherl, in a word, real lava. . There is likewife a grey, ilali^c- 

 titic, porous lava to be met with, which contains black fherls j and 

 laflly we found an argillaceous, lamellated iron ilone of a dull red- 

 difh hrown colour. 



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The Friendly Islands have, in my opinion, the fame foil as 

 the Society Illes ; with this difference only, that they 

 high or fo rocky as the 



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latter. When we came to A-Namock 



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