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PopuLA- collo, and if we may form a judgment from the cultivation Iti 



Ambnym it mufl be equally, if not better inhabited ; the iiles of 



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Aurora, of Lepers, and Whitfuntide, feem to be lefs populous, 

 Tierradel Efpiritu Santo is large, and perhaps in proportion to its 



iize, has many inhab 



The iiles of Pa-oom, A-Pee, Three 



hills. 



Shepherd, Mountague, Ilinchinbrook, and Sandwich 



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are all inhabited, and the latter feemed to be very fertile and 



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pop 



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lous. 



Irromans^a, and Tanna, from our own obfervations. 



and the iiles of Irronan, Immer, and Anattom according to the 

 informations we recsived at Tanna, are full of people : all thefe 



therefore, together 

 inhabitants. 



may be fuppofed to contain at leafl 200,000, 



If we fuppofe -the num-ber of fouls in New-Caledonia and its 

 adjacent iiles to be 50,000, the allowance, it is apprehended, ran- 

 not be deemed very faulty ; for though thefe parts be not fo highly 



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populous as fome others ; an extent of eighty leagues in length, 

 will juilify the guefs v/e have made concerning its flate of 



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population. 



The Southern iile of New-Zeeland has "very few inhabitants 5 

 "but the Northernmoil, according to the accounts we had from Capt. 

 Cook, and from what we faw in fome few places, as we paiTed 

 is .much better peopled, nay, in fome ipots very populous; there- 



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