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flrongly marked as on continents, or in illes contiguous to them; 

 efpecially as fruits of all kinds chiefly ripen during the wet months. 



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which would be impoffibley, were the rains conftant; and fecondly, 

 fince even the dry months are not .wholly eJcempted from fliowers : 



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but the relative diflindioii holds notwithilanding, as the propor-^ 



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tion of rain in one, is conliderably greater than in another. 



It is owing to the exceeding fmall fize of the low ifles^ that their 



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vegetable productions are fo inconfiderable i though I mujft confefs 



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we never landed on any one without meeting with fomething new 



Savage-Isle,, which 



fad 



more than a low ifland 



fed 



feveral feet above water, and clearly manifefls its origin, by the 

 bare coral rocks of which it coniiUs, has fome new plants,, which. 



fkirts of the ill 



rew in the cavities of the coral with 



out any the leail foil.. V/e might have made feveral acquifitions on, 

 this ifland,. but the favage difpofition of the natives forced' u 



s to 



abandon it. 



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As a contrail to the tropical iiles, we ought to 



m.en 



tion Eafler-Ifland,. which lies fo little without the tropic, that it 



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well be claffed with thofe ifles which, are aftually included in 



may 

 it. 



This ifle is either groffly mifreprefented by the D 



difc 



verers, or has fince then been almoil: 



d. Its wretched:. 



fo 



loaded 



th innumerable flones, furnifhes a Flora of only 



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among thefe,. ten are cultivated 



md almoil 



low, Ihri veiled and dry 



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grows to ; 

 the oppofi 



or 



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