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c H^A P. Rats i^re the only quadrupeds which have been found 
w — ^. — „j ti-^ig iiland ; and from thefe, as well as from the ants, 
it was feared the crops might fiiiter ; but no great in- 
convenience has yet been experienced from them ; and 
proDcr exertions feldom fail in a fliort time to reduce the 
number of fuch enemies, enough to make their depreda- 
tions very inconfider able. On the whole, Norfolk Ifland 
certainly deferves to be coniidered as an acquiiition of 
fom.e importance, and is likely to anfwer even the 
moft fanguine expectations. Some canoes have been 
found on the rocksj which were fuppofed to have been 
driven from New Zealand ; but the appearance of a 
freili cocoa not and a fraall piece of manufactured wood, 
which feemed to have been only a fmall time in the 
water, has lately fuggefted an idea that probably fome 
inhabited iiland may lie at no great diiiance. There has 
not been as yet any opportunity to determine whether 
this opinion be well founded or not. j 
A fmall ifland, but entirely uninhabited, was difco- 
vered by Lieutenant Ball in his paiTage to Norfolk Iiland* 
In his return he examined it, and found that the fnore 
• ■ ' abounded with turtle, but there was no good anchorage. 
He named it Lord Howe JJland, It is in 31" 36' fouth lati- 
tude, and 159" eaft longitude. Part of this ifland being 
very high may be feen at the diftance of fixteen leagues, 
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