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to return again to it. The natives of the Society Ifles, pretend their 

 illes were produced when 0-Maoowe dragged a great land from 

 V/eft to Eaft through the ocean, which they Hill imagine to be 

 fituatedto the E aft ward of their iflands: all that time they fay, 

 their ifles were- broken off. as little fragments, and left in the midfb« 

 of the ocean.. This tradition feems to indicate, that the inhabitants 

 themfelves have fome idea of a great revolution, v/hich happened 

 to their ifles. The god of earthquakes, nientiened before, prove 



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that they fome how refer the prefent condition of their ifles, to a. 

 great earthquake as a general caufe : and the great land they remem- 

 ber, and . of which their ifles are fragments, feems to imply, . 

 that they have not: forgotten that their habitations formerly were 



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parts of a great continent, deftroyed by earthquakes, and a violent, 

 flood, which the dragging of the land through the fea feems to. 

 indicate... 



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