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REMARKS ON 



T H E 



ARTS 



AND 



SCIltRCES 



78 . O - H E A V A I is larger than. Taheitee i "Tupaya 



e 



d 



C< 



It l^ 



iC 



the father of all the ifiands." 



79 



Tedhu-r6a„ a fmallilland, a few leagues to the North 



Fto Other inhabitants than thofe wha 



of O-Tah 



has 



occafionally refort to it from Taheitee. 



80. 0-Wa,n n a, one of the low iflands,, Eail of Taheitee.. 



81. Tata-hapai,, 82;. Tapy-arV,, 83. Haedede^ 



are three other names of iflands 



I found mentioned. 



m one o 



f the lifts, without any 



thing relative, to 



1 



tneu" 



lituation.. 



84.. Pappa A is a low. iliand. 



the, Eafl' of Toopai 



(20), whofe inhabitants freq^uently go to this laft mentioned; 

 iliand in order to iiih and to catch turtle, but their language 

 is not underilood.by the peo|)le. of Borabora, who refort 



there for the fame purpofe. 

 As I have, no account of the particular fi 



r 



ifles, I omitted the names on the chart. 



more than eighty ifles 



of the five lafl 



F 



However the number of 



abundantly fufficient to p 



that the 



nhab 



of the Society- ifles have a competent and 



tenfiv 



knowledge of the geography of their nc 

 the fmall fize and flight ftruaure of th 



ghbourhood,, confidering 

 ir embarkations, and the 



want of a compafs J and that they cannot like the antient Phoen 



cians and the Greeks, follow the fhores of an extenfivc continen 



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