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REMARKS 



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THE 



RIVU- 

 LETS. 



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of a Salvator Rosa to do them juftice: however the 



genlous artill-, who v/ent with us on this expedition has great merit, 

 in hlvino- executed fome of thefe romantic landfcapes in a maflerly 



manner. 



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The upper parts of all the rivulets in the Society Illes, are not 

 fo ufelefs or negieded. 



as might be imagined. 



Wherever the na 



obferve that the valley between the ileep fides 



ges, ther 



they form a wear, by piling large ftones fo high, that the water 



raifed on a level with or 



even higher than the plain -, which they 

 furround with a fmall bank, make it level and plant it with eddoes 



efculentuniy a plant which likes 



be under water and 



grows into large tuberou 



they then adm 



the water 



thefe plantations from above the wear and difcharge it at the oppo-^ 

 fite end. The wears ferve the natives at the fame time for a bridge,. 



ihey being extremely ikilful in jumping from 

 another, and fometimes carrying at the fame 



their backs 



large ftone to 



a burthen on 



Sect. III. 



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E 



A 



IST. 



CyCEAN. 



the 



It 



HE laft and moft eonfiderable body of water is 

 hip-hly deferves to be examined on many accounts, and though 



the remarks we have to make 



but few and perhap 



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