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A.R T S 



AND 



SCIE^'CES 



R E M ARKS 



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T H E 



this opinion has very lately been attacked; lam ftill- ©f 



Dalrymple's conje<fture has not 



opinion 



that 



M r. 



been invalidated by the Ihew of arguments oppofed to. 



It. 



It is about thirty leagues in circumference, 



and 



both . Peninfulas are 



high land, which,, , efpecially in 



the 



Eafternmoil, is extremely fpiry,,. and has the flrongeft 

 marks of being the. v^^ork. of a violent, earthquake and 

 fubterraneous fire^. 



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2 . , M ^ A T £: A, , was called Ofnabruck IjTand by Captain Wallis, 



and Pic de la Roiideufe or Boudoir by Mr. de Bougainvilk. 

 If the.. conjedure of Taheitee being Sagittaria is righl. 



Mosatea muft be Dezena, feen by Qu 



February the 



9 th, 



i6o6. 



It is about four or five miles in circuiti . is 



high land,^ and the fummit of the hiU has the appearance 

 of being excavated, as if formerly there., had been, a 

 volcano, whofc crater is now filled up.' 



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3. O-Heeva-nooe, an ifle to the Eaftward of O- Taheitee, feems. 



to be the fame which. Captain Cook called C^ain IJland. 

 in 17695,, being a chain of low iflands eonne(n:ed 

 reefs into an oval ihape, ..about five leagues in length. 



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j^. GiROTAH, is an illand larger than Taheitee, inhabited. 



5.. OusopoE, likewife inhabited, and larger than Taheitee. 



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