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SPRINGS. New-Zeel AND no doubt has abundance of fprings and rivulets^ 



and there Is hardly an iflet or rock, which is not bleffed with a 

 fpring of frefh water. In X)z^_y 5^/ there are feveral rich fprings ; 

 but all the water running and being drained through a rich, 

 fpungy, loofe mould formed from putrefied vegetables, has acquired 



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a deep brown colour; it is neverthelefs free from foulnefs, has no 

 peculiar tafle and keeps at fea remarkably well. 



TiERRA DEL FuEGO Is jlchly provided with the fiueft fprings 

 and large ponds of frefh water, from the melted fnow, on its high 

 and barren rocks. In fome places we obferved large and high 



cafcades, which greatly contribute to foften the harlhnefs of its. 

 wild fceneiy. 



In South-Georgia and Sandwich-Land, we met with no 



fprings : but as there Is ice enough In its vicinity and even as far as 

 the parallel of 51" South latitude, in their fpring feafon, and In 

 the depth of fummer and autumn higher up in 67° and 70°, a navl- 

 gator cannot be at a lofs for frefh water In high Southern latitudes. 

 If I except the water at Tanna In the hot wells, which perhaps 

 may contain fome faline particles on account of a faint aflringency 

 I tailed, we did not meet with any other medicated water whatfoever 



in the courfe of our expedition. 



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