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v/here cxceedG four feet. They found nO: frefa v/ater 
on the ifland, but it abounds v/ith cabbage-pdmsj man- 
grove and manchineal trees j even up to to the fummits 
of the mountains. No vegetables Vv^ere to be fee-n. On 
the lliore there are plenty of ganets, and a land-fowl, of 
a dulky brown colour, with a bill about four inches long, 
and feet like thofe of a chicken ; thefe proved remark- 
ably fat, and were very good food ; but we have no 
further account of them. There are alfo many very 
large pigeons, and the white birds refembling the Guinea 
fowl, which were found at Norfolk Ifland, v/ere feen here 
alfo in great numbers. The bill of this bird is red, and 
very ftrong, thick, and iliarp-pointed. Innumerable 
quantities of exceeding fine turtle frequent this place in 
the fummer feafon, but at the approach of winter they 
all go to the northward. There was not the leafb difti- 
culty in taking them. The failors likewife caught plenty 
of fifli with a hook and line. 
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