THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
ence. They were furprized to meet with feveral fields of 1779- 
hay ; and on inquiring to what iifes it was applied, were 
told, it was defigned to cover the young tarrow grounds, in 
order to preferve them from being fcorched by the fun. 
They faw a few fcattered huts amongft the plantations, 
which ferved for occafional fhelter to the labourers ; but no 
villages at a greater diftance than four or five miles from 
the lea. Near one of them, about four miles from the bay, 
they found a cave, forty fathoms long, three broad, and of 
the fame height. It was open at both ends; the tides were 
fluted, as if wrought with a chilfel, and the furface glazed 
over, probably by the a£tion of fire. 
Having given this account of the moft material circum- 
ftances that occurred on the expedition to the fnowy moun¬ 
tain, I lhall now return to the other illands that remain to 
be defcribed. 
The ifland next in fize, and neareft in fituation, to 
Owhyhee, is Mowee ; which lies at the diftance of eight 
leagues North North Weft from the former, and is 140 
geographical miles in circumference. A low ifthmus di¬ 
vides it into two circular peninfulas, of which that to the 
Eaft is called Whamadooa, and is double the fize of the 
Weftern peninfula called Owhyrookoo. The mountains in 
both rife to an exceeding great height, having been feen 
by us at the diftance of upward of thirty leagues. The 
Northern fhores, like thofe of Owhyhee, afford no found¬ 
ings ; and the country presents the fame appearance of 
verdure and fertility. To the South Eaft, between this and 
the adjacent ifles, we had regular depths with a hundred 
and fifty fathoms, with a fandy bottom. From the Weft 
point, which is low, runs a fhoal, ftretching out toward 
Ranai, to a confiderable diftance ; and to the Southward of 
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