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TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



Still, as we advance to the South, the appearance of countries 

 becomes more and more barren. Tierra del Fuego, at the South 



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extremity of America, always labours under the rigors of cold, and 



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all its Weflern coafts are barren 



ky mountains, whofe top 



continually covered with fnow» In a bay where we anchored to the 

 North-Weil of Cape Horn, we found fcarce any traces of vegeta- 

 tion, except on fome low little ifles, whofe thin turf, which co- 

 vered the rock, was quite marihy 5 and in the loweil bottoms of 

 vallies, or the crevices of mountains, v/here fome ili-Hiaped 



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wretched ihrubberies were to be found, fcarce ever growing to fuch 



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a height, as to deferve the name of trees. All the higher parts of 

 the mountains are black rocks, perfedly naked. 



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talogue of plants, we however find the celery, which Providence has 

 diftributed fo univerfally, as one of the bell remedies againfb the 



fcurvy. 



The North-Eaft lide of Tierra del Fuego, Hopes into a 



kind of plain, and looks more; rich in vegetables ; but we did not 

 land upon it. 



NEW GEORGIA. 



When we faw the barren lide of Tierra del Fuego, we liad fcarcg 

 an idea of a more wretched country exiiling ^ but after {landing 



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fometinie to the Eaftv/ard, we met with the iile of New-Georgia, 



vrhich. 



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