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whole horizon is divided into twelve points, £o that two points 



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would fall between two cardinals. 



The 



of tliefe ifles 



Id not 



■bread fruit, their chief fubfiflen 



grows 



b 



obferving, that the 

 It once during twelve 

 -months or revolutions of the moon ; for during the fpace of fcven 

 months this fruit is gathered in abundance on the trees that bear it, 



but during five months they find none. 



Th 



mftance very 



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naturally muft lead them to invefiigate the true caufe of it, the 



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revolution of the fun. At the folftice in December, the fun is 

 iii its meridian altitude beyond the ifle, towards the South of it, 

 and in the folilice in June, he is in the Northern Hemiiphere, 

 and therefore pafTes twice a year through the zenith. About two 

 months before and after the time of the funs reaching the Southern 

 tropic, bread-fruit is very fcarce, and during the feafon from 

 Auguil to March, this fruit is very plentiful, being ripe in March 

 or the beginning of April, and this laft feafon they call Pa-ooroo, 

 from the name of bread-fruit. The mildnefs of the climate 

 however is fuch, that there is always a tree here and there, which 

 from its peculiar fituation in a valley more elevated than the plain 

 furrounding the ifle, or from its expofure on the Southern fide of 

 a high hill, bears fruit at a time when the generality of trees 



of 



this kind have 



and it is from thefe trees that 



chiefs 



and better fort of people have a conftant fucceffion of freih bread- 



fruit, 



