EARTH AND' LANDS 



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the year 1 774, we faw on the ifle of Tofoba a Ijnoke in. the morning, strata*. 



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which appeared fiery at night. When we paiTed between it and O- 

 Ghao, we obferved great clouds of fmoke rifing from the middle of 



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the ifle, attended with a fmell fimilar to that produced by burnt 



turf; fome particles filled the atmofphere, and fell down on the 



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iliip,. and coming in contacft with the eye, cccafioned an acute pain- 

 On the North fide of the ifle we faw a large place with the evident 

 appearance of being lately burnt by fire. On the ihores of A-Na- 

 mocka, pumice-ftones were frequently thrown up by the fea. The: 

 natives of all thefe ifles ufed likewife pieces of black, folid befaltes 



for hatchets and tools, as in the Society Ifles. Among the fifhing 

 implements of thefe iflanders, we found conic pieces of a calcareous 



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{tone ; but we could not determine whether they were made of ipar,, 



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or of coral-rock : though I am inclined to believe thefe cones to be 



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a kind of fparry fubflance. 



The foil of the New-Hebrides feems to be very much of the 

 fame kind with that in the above iflands. 



AtMALLicoLLO, it appeared to confifl rather of ayellowiih clay,, 



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mixed with common fand. The rocks along the fea-lhore, are 

 formed of corals and madrep'ores ; and higher up of an indurated clay.. 

 The ifle of Ambrrym has certainly one, if not two, volcanos ; 

 and we found pumice-fl:ones on the oppofite flidres of Mallicollov 

 Irromanga we faw only at a diflance, and it fcemed to be mucit 



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