OWHY HEE. 
mountains may be pala higher. For, 7 eid fitua- 
tions, the effects o m fea-air m rily remove 
the line of {now, in equal anes toa ae ‘eight than 
par the cnet is other on all fides, by an immenfe 
of pe oo e coaft of Kaoo patents a 
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with black ftreaks, which feem to mark the courfe of a lavathat 
has flowed, not many ages back, from the mountain Roa to 
the fhore. The fouthern Peeing looks like the mere 
tion of yams an 
are many patches of rich foil, which are carefully laid out in 
plantations ; and the neighbouring fea abounds with a variety 
of moft excellent fifh, with which, as well as with other 
provilions, we were always plentitully fupplied. Off this 
part of the coat we could find no ground lefs than a cable’s 
length from the fhore, with 160 fathoms of line, excepting 
in a {mall bight to the eaftward of the fouth point, where 
we had regular foundings of fifty and fifty-eight fathoms, 
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fame ftate with the adjoining dit ftridt of Kaoo ; but farther 
to the north, the country has been cultivated with great 
pains, and is extremely populous. In this part of the ifland 
is fituated Karakakooa Bay, which fee. Along the coaft 
nothing is feen but large maffes of flag, and the fragments 
of black fcorched rocks; behind which the ground rifes 
gradually for about two miles and a half, and appears to have 
{weet potatoes, and the 
rich afhy mould, they cultivate 
cloth plant. The fields are inclofed with ftone fences, and 
are interfperfed with g of 8. n the 
rifing ground beyond thefe the bread- ai trees are planted, 
d flourifh with the eft luxurianc aara eetend 
from the wefternmoft point of the northern extremity of 
the ifland; the whole coaft between them ing an exten 
five bay, called Toe-yah-yah, which is bounded to the N. by 
two very confpicuous hills. ‘Toward the bottom of this bay, 
there is foul, corally ground, extending upwards of a mile 
from the fhore, without which the foundings are regular, 
with good anchorage, in twenty fathoms. ‘The ceuntry, as 
far as the eye could reach, feemed fruitful and well inhabited, 
the foil being in appearance of the fame kind ‘a the dutriet 
of Kaoo, but no trefh water is toebe got here. A party 
advanced into the land,to the diltance o ne or four fle, 
from the bay: they found the country as before defcribed ; 
the hills afterwards rofe with a more fudden- afcent, which 
brought them to the extenfive plantations that terminate the 
view of the country, as feen from the fhips. ‘Thefe planta- 
him a part of fu 
clined the offer, and foon withdrew to his cottage. He w 
defcribed as by far the oldeft perfon any of the party had 
ever wat an Jue to i by es who rie his 
age, at the 
little fleep, an ives none all; both parties 
being diiturbed the whole night by continued cou 
ng. This skint rigou old was afcribed to 
full pee 
cad which their seas and 
advanced about ten miles in the Gack. they fou aa feat: 
on a fudden, within fight of the fea, and at no great diftance 
from it. The therefore retraced their fleps for fix or 
feven miles to an unoccupied ape where they had left three 
of the natives and two of their own people, and the fmall 
ftock that remained of their proeee: 
the fecond night, fuffering much fi 
Their provifions being exhaufted, they found it advifable to 
of the cultivated parts of the ifland, and 
return to tome 
So the wood by the fame path on which they had en- 
ere aving obtained a frefh fupply, they marched 
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along ne fkirts of the wood for fix or feven miles, and en. 
tered it again, purfuing their courfe for the firtt three miles 
te forefts of lofty 1 Sicaalia In paffing through the 
woods, they found many ca 
there a ae ; but faw none of Ue peas 
- progrefs, they eaten the want of w 
urfe of 20 miles they had 
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themfelves furrounded, on all ee: with wood towards the 
fea; they could not diftinguifh, in the horizon, the fky from 
between them and the fnowy mountain, 
whit they had once intended to afcend and examine, was a 
valley about feven or eight miles broad, above which the 
mountain appeared only as a hill of a moderate fize. Find- 
ing themfelves about g miles N.E. of the fhips, they di- 
rected their march toward them through the a 
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