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frefliment that is neceff.iry for a fleet may be procured chap. 
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in great abundances and very cheap. w,, — ^ 
The Vv'hole harbour, as well as the town, is defended 
by a number of ftrong fortifications ; and as far as 
Lieutenant Ball had an opportunity of examining the 
harbour, the draft of it publifiied in the Eait India 
chart is very true, the foundings right, and the bearings 
very accurate. 
Their trade is chiefly to Portugal, and confnis of bul- 
lion, indigo, fugar, rum, tobacco, brazil wood, whale- 
oil, whale bone, fpermaceti, Sic. and of late years dia- 
monds and many other valuable commodities. 
In approaching Norfolk Ifland there is no danger : Lieut* 
Ball anchored in nineteen fathoms, over a bottom of coarle 
land and coral, the north-eaft end of the ifland bearing 
v/efl fouth-weft quarter weft; the eafternmoft rocks eaft 
fouth-eaft, about a mile diftant from the neareft fliore : at 
this place Capt. Cook landed. Ships have anchored alio at 
fouth end of the ifle in twenty-two fathoms, the weftern- 
inoft point of Phillip Ifle fouth fouth-eaft, the body of 
Nepean's Ifle eaft north-eaft half eaft, and the fouth. 
i^oint of Norfolk Ifle north-eaft by eaft. They anchored 
again in eighteen fathoms, over a bottom of fand and 
coral, the weft point of PhiUip Ifle bearing fouth, the 
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