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Guns Should call more to their Affift- 

 ance 5 and we went butftragling up and 

 down. 



Our Men being tolerably well recover'd, 

 we flood away to the Southward, and came 

 to the Ifland Cocos, in 5 Deg. 1 5 Min. N. *• Coc * s ? 

 Lat. 'Tis fo called ftom its Coco-Nuts, 

 wherewith 'tis plentifully ftord. Tis but a 

 fmall Ifland, yet a very pleafant one: Forapicafant 

 the middle of the Ifland is a fteep Hill, furr place - 

 rounded all about with a Plain, declining 

 to the Sea. This Plain, and particularly the 

 Valley where you go aftiore, is thick fet 

 with Coco-nut Trees, which flourilh here 

 very finely, it being a rich and fruitful 

 Soil. They grow alfo on the Skirts of 

 the Hilly Ground in the middle of the 

 Ifle, and {battering in Spots upon the fides 

 of it, very pleafantly. But that which 

 contributes moft to the Pleafure of the 

 Place is, that a great many Springs of clear 

 and fweet Water rifing to the top of the 

 Hill, are there gathered as in a deep large 

 Bafon or Pond, the Top fubfiding inwards 

 quite round $ and the Water having by this 

 jneans no Channel whereby to flow along, 

 as in a Brook or River, it overflows the 

 Verge of its Bafon in feveral Places, and 

 runs trickling down in many pretty Streams. 

 In fome places of its overflowirg, the rocky- 

 Sides of the Hill being more than parpen* 

 dicula^ aud hanging over the Plain be- 



heath, 



