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ow the norlh and waft by very high Jand under the form of mountain,, 

 table, ravine, and Hope, all declining towards it. In form it appeared 

 to me oblong; the fides of the eaft, weft, and fouth nearly ftraight, 

 that of the north and efjecially to the north-eait where there- ; is a plain at 

 the foot' of elevated land, indented and irregularly tending to the eaft 

 The angles were not [harp, or its figure would have approached nearer 

 to a fquare than any other ;but it may be confidence! as an irregular oval. 

 Its breadth from fouth to north, 1 efti mate at about eleven miles; its length 

 about fifteen. The water 3 except where difturbed by~' the wind near 

 the beach, where it is- Tandy, is clear-arid Well tafled. No* weeds are 

 obfervable on its furface, but graf^ is thrown upon its banks from 

 the bottom- -The middle and fides fartheft from the fpecTitor refket 

 green ; and, taken altogether *■ it has ""•a-noblc appearance, whether in 

 an agitated Or a quiet (late. We had. ihowevef but little opportunity of 

 feeing it unruffled ; for the changes of temperature of the atnnofphere 

 are here exiremely frequent and fudden, attended-' with great muta- 

 bility in the. wind. — Confidering the'heat of the fun in the middle of 

 the day, the vaft bodies of {now on the fummits of the neighbouring 

 mountains, which produce their influence when the fun begins to de- 

 cline, and the breaches and : gullies' through the' ranges of hills, it is not 

 furprifing that there mould* be an* almbft continual Conflict between 

 oppofite currents of air^ or Ast the ; lbift9 of » temperature mould be 

 frequent and great — At what feafon 'this large bafin is mofl full I could 

 not learn; -but I. apprehend this muft be thedrieft feafon, as the greateft 

 part of ihc watcrcourfes which I faw were dry. But I found no ap- 

 pearance c ! -ater-mark above four feet higher than the pre fent water 

 line; which would be wholly infuflicient to produce any overflowof 

 its baiiks. 



-aw a great number of fkeletons cf yaks bctiveen the low and h\ 



