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REMARKS 



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STRATA, found likewife, in the vicinity of the hot fteaming places or folfa» 



red och 



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olic- earth, iimilar to the colcofhar 



oily ufed by the natives for painting their faces. Every where in> 



met with pumice-ftones of purple, black, and white 



the ille w( 



colour^, and of different fpecific gravity,. On the South-fide of tha 

 ifle is a cliff, in v/hich I found feveral pieces of lava, fome of which: 



were black and fblid, others porous and filled, with greenifh 

 white fherl cryflals ; others were grey and porous,, containing yel- 

 low and black, fherL Belides thefe, we found a reddiih lava or 

 tarras, very light and fimilar to a pumice-flone^ On the fhores 





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were calcareous tophi to be met with, containins; feveral nidi of 



pholades. 



The neighbouring ifle of Anattom, I fuppofe to contain like- 

 wife volcanic producftions, as well as Tanna, becaufe the natives of 

 the latter had hatchets of black, folid bafaltes or paragpne, and faid 

 they came from Anattomy to diflinguiih them from hatchets made 

 of a white fhell, and which came from the ifle o^ Immer : the firit 

 kind they called Paha-blttafy and the latter Faha^bujhan, To our, 



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iron hatchets they gave the firil name* 



New-Caledonia, audits adjacent ifles, are furrounded by a^: 

 reef of coral rocks and madrepores* The iliores confifl of fhell- 



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fan d and particles of quartz. The foil is, in the plains, a black 



mould mixed with the above fand, and when watered and cultivate 



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