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REMARKS ON the 



KINGDOM 



VEGE- name of Friendly Ifles, from the peaceable, kind difpofition of 



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their inhabitants . They are raifed fo high above the level of the fea, 

 that they can no longer rank with the Lov^ Iflands -, and being defti- 

 tute of mountains, they are equally diftindl from the High 

 Illands. They are extremely populous, their uniform furface 

 therefore, gives the people an opportunity of carrying cultivation 

 very far -, and from one end to the other, they are interfedied by 

 paths and fences, which divide the plantations. At firft one might 

 be apt to think that this high cultivation, would give the botanift 

 very fcanty fupplies of fpontaneous plants j but it is the peculiar 

 beauty of all thefe elegant illes to join the ufeful to the agreeable in 



nature, by which means a variety of different wild fpecies thrive 

 among thofe that are cultivated, in that pleafmg diforder which is 

 fo much admired in the gardens of this kingdom* 



NEW HEBRIDES.. 



■ The more Weftern illes named the New Hebrides, appear with 

 avery different vegetation. They are high and mountainous, with^ 

 out plains or reefs, though their hills have gentle ilopes, and 



their valleys are extenfive : they are fertile, and almoil totally 

 covered with forefls, in which, the plantations of the natives, are 

 fo many infulated fpots, efpecially as the number of inhabitants is 

 but fmall for the fize of the illes. The fpontaneous plants there- 



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