THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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fchefe iflands. The country, to the South, is high and i 77 
craggy; hut the other parts of the illand had a better af- Mari 
peCt, and appeared to be well inhabited. We were told that 
it produces very few plantains, and bread-fruit trees ; but 
that it abounds in roots, fuch as yams, fweet potatoes, and 
tarrow. 
Woahoo lies to the North Weft of Morotoi, at the diftance 
of about feven leagues. As far as we could judge, from the 
appearance of the North Eaft and North Weft parts (for we 
faw nothing of the Southern fide), it is by far the fineft 
ifland of the whole group. Nothing can exceed the verdure 
of the hills, the variety of w'ood and lawn, and rich culti¬ 
vated vallies, which the whole face of the country dis¬ 
played. Having already given a defcription of the bay, 
formed by the North and Weft extremities, in which we 
came to anchor, 1 have only to obferve, that in the bight 
of the bay, to the South of the anchoring-place, we found 
rocky foul ground, two miles from the fhore. Should the 
ground tackling of a fhip be weak, and the wind blow 
ftrong from the North, to which quarter the road is en¬ 
tirely open, this circumftance might be attended with fome 
danger ; but with good cables there would be little rifk, as 
the ground from the anchoring-place, which is oppolite to 
the valley through which the river runs, to the North point, 
is a fine fand. 
Atooi lies to the North Weft of Woahoo, and is diftant 
from it about twenty-five leagues. The face of the country, 
to the North Eaft and North Weft, is broken and ragged; 
but to the South it is more even ; the hills rife with a gen¬ 
tle Hope from the fea-fide, and, at fome diftance back, are 
covered with wood. Its productions are the fame with thofe 
of the other iflands; but the inhabitants far furpafs all the 
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