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of the ifland of Mindanao. N. lat. 7° 40’. E. long. 122 
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NOONY, a town of Bengal, in the circar of Hendooa ; ; 
34 miles N. of Nagore. N. lat. 28°. E. long. 87° 7/. 
NOOPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; ee 
miles E. of Surat. N. lat. 24° 11!._E. long. 73° 50’. 
NOORALD peek a oe of Hindooftan, in Lahore; 
35 miles E.8.E. of L 
NOORBATORNZIA, atown of Thibet; 5 miles S. 
of Peinom Jeung. 
N sUNGE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude 
8 miles W. of Fyzabad.—Alfo, a town in Oude; 30 mies 
E. of Lucknow. 
NOORMEHAL, a aided of Hindooftan, in Lahore; 
40 miles Pe S.E. of Sultanpou 
NOO sei a town “OF Hindooftan, in Bengal; 
22 miles N. of Com 
N UR, a ou of “Hindooftan, and capital of a 
cies in the fubah of Lahore ; ; 7o miles N.E. of Lahore. 
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N. lat. 12', E. long. eee a town of Bengal ; 
20 miles ‘SW. of Dac See } 
NOORT Port, i noith one “of the port of Co- 
quimbo, in Chili. 
NOOSE. See 
Noo 
NOOTKA, or King "Geor - ii ia Geogra an 
ifand in Nootka Sound. N. 1 - < E. ae 
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thefe points the found widens confiderably, a 
to the northward, four leagues at | 
feveral branches towards its bottom, which were not afcer- 
i The middle of the found prefents a number of 
iflands of various fizes. Here, as well as clofe to pe 
parts of the fhore, the depth of water is from 0 go 
fathoms, and even more. ‘The harbours and aenes 
places, within its circuit, are mumerour. The cove in which 
covered from the fea, it is expofed to the fouth-eaft winds, 
which occafionally blow with deftructive violence, 
fand that borders en the fea-coaft is. of a middling height, 
and level ; but within the found, it rifes every where into 
fteep hills, terminating in round or blunted tops, with fome 
ew {pots, which are bare, in- 
dicate the general rocky difpofition of thefe hills. The only 
foil upon them is a kind of compoft, produced from rotten 
moffes and trees, about two feet deep. The little coves in 
the found have beaches compofed of fragments of rock, in- 
termixed with pebbles; and they are furnifhed with large 
mafies of fallen wood, driven im by the tide, — with 
rills ‘of trefh water, fufficient for the ufe o Pp, ap 
parently fupplied ie the rains and fogs that hove about 
the tops of the hi e water of thefe rills is perfeGly 
€ and eafily suites foap. The climate, as far as our 
navigators had any gion of it, is infinitely milder than 
that on the eaft coatt of America, under the fame parallel of 
The mercury in the thermometer, ever in the 
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night, was never lower than 42°, and in the day it very 
often rofe to 60°. Frof was not perceived in any part of 
the pa ground, but vegetation had made a confiderable 
progrefs. The trees, which grow very vigoroufly, and to 
a alee fize, are chiefly the Canadian pine, white cyprefs,. 
the wild pine, and two or three other forts of pine le{s com- 
Of other vegetable produCtions there is little variety. 
thiftle, goofe-grafs, fome crow’s pen with a fine crimfor 
wer, and two forts of anthericum, one with a large orange 
flower, and another witha blue one. In the fame fituations 
were found fome wild refe-bufhes juft budding, young leeks 
with triangular leaves, a fmall fort of grafs, water-crefles, 
and andromeda in great abundance. Within the woods. 
were moffes and ferns of different forts. 
; and thefe were often in a very mutilated 
ate, oat enabled them to determme to what ani- 
mals they belonged. The mo mon were bears, deer, 
foxes, ae wolves. The fea-animals feen off the 
whales, porpoifes, and feals. e fea-otter alfo abounds 
here: and the fur of this animal is fofter and finer than that 
of any others ; Ze fo that the pene of this part of the con- 
tinent of a America, where fo valuable an article of 
gle ith 
thofe which were dings 
drie E flins, or certain fra 
hawk, a ae and the peu crefted A 
the filver-coloured Ay god-brown coloured, are next to 
the former in quant 
fcarce. Sharks ercaeis Pecaene the found. 
marine animals are all cruciated medufa or blubber, 
ftar-fith, fmall crabs, and the cuttle-fith. About the rocks 
are large mufcles, fea-ears, and fhells of large ehamz; an 
the fmaller forts are tr ohn murex, rugged wilke, and fnails. 
Befides thefe, there are fome fmall cockles and limpets. In the 
found, or upon the coaft, there is red coral, as it was found 
in the canoes of the natives. The only animale of the reptile 
kiad obferved here, and fownd in the woods, were brown 
fnakes, with whitifh ftrrpes on the back and fides, which 
are harmlefs ; and brownifl water-liazards. The infect tribe 
forms a numerous clafs; but of minerals, no ores of any 
metal were feen, if we except a cearfe, red, earthy or ochry 
fubftance, uted by the natives in painting themfelves, which 
may probably contain a Kittle iron; with a white and bluerfy 
pigment, ufed for the fame purpofe. Befides the ftone or 
rock that conftitutes the mountains and fhores, which fome- 
times contains pieces of very coarfe quartz, here were found: 
a hard black granite, a greyifh whet-ftone, the a oil- 
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