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the iiland are covered with fand and 
gravel, of which laft a little is alfo found 
towards its center. 
I further questioned our failors concern- 
ing the appearance and abfence of the 
fun, the temperature of the climate, the 
feveral viciflTitudes to which the air was 
expofed, and in fhort all the phenomena 
they might have obferved during their 
fby on the iiland. 
The anfwers they gave me relating 
to the firft appearance of the Cun, its 
courfe round the horizon, and its total dis- 
appearance, were as follows. The fun, 
they faid, firft appeared in the begin- 
ning of Lent; but as this varies much, 
according as Eafter happens to fall, and as 
thefe illiterate failors were quite unac- 
quainted with the manner of calculating 
Eafter, or had perhaps never obferved 
that this feftival falls fometimes later than 
others, fo I could not from this anfwer 
determine the time of the fun's firft ap- 
pearance 
