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little bread-fruit, few or no apples, and the bannanas were fcarce : 

 and if we except the eddoes, the greater part of vegetables were 

 but moderately plentiful, and hogs fcarcely to be had at all. But when 

 v/e arrived eight months after, in April, the hills as far as their very 



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fummits, were clad with the moft agreeable verdure; the trees on 



the plains were bending under the weight of bread-fruit; in the 

 valleys the largefl apple-trees were loaded with their excellent fruit; 

 all the fhores fringed by innumerable coco-nut trees, offered a vafl 



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profufion of thefe ufeful nuts; nay the 



valleys between the higher 



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were 



:ly covered 



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immen 



fe cluflers of 



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plantain, while each cottage was furrounded with confiderable plan- 

 tain-walks of the better fort, richly providing a more delicious 

 food : we obtained in a little time a great quantity of large and well 



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tailed hogs from the natives, and faw every where, more left. This 



fo material differen 



was, in my opinion, caufed 



the natural 



change of feafons. When we 



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there the laft time, the fun 



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had then juft left the Southern hemifphere; and it has been gene- 

 rally obferved, that wherever the fun is vertical within the tropics, 

 there its powerful beams accelerate the riling of the vapours, and 



the vivifying In- 



of rain; which together with 



caufe a profufion 



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fluence of the fun, of courfe refreilies and quickens vegetation, in- 



fufes new life 



all the 



mated part of 



and produ 



plenty every where. 



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