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1779. neighbouring iilanders in the management of their planta- 
tions. In the low grounds, adjoining to the bay where we 
lay at anchor, thefe plantations were divided by deep and 
regular ditches; the fences were made with a neatnefs ap¬ 
proaching to elegance, and the roads through them were 
thrown up and finilhed, in a manner that would have done 
credit to any European engineer. 
Oneeheow lies five leagues to the Weft ward of Atooi. 
The Eaftern coaft is high, and riles abruptly from the fea, 
but the reft of the ifland conftfts of low ground; excepting 
a round bluff head on the South Eaft point. It produces 
abundance of yams, and of the fweet root called Tee ; but 
we got from it no other fort of provifions. 
Oreehoua, and Tahoora, are two fmall illands in the 
neighbourhood of Oneeheow. The former is a fingle high 
hummock, joined by a reef of coral rocks to the Northern 
extremity of Oneeheow. The latter lies to the South Weft, 
and is uninhabited. 
The climate of the Sandwich Illands differs very little 
from that of the Weft India Illands, which lie in the fame 
latitude. Upon the whole, perhaps, it may be rather more 
temperate. The thermometer, on fhore in Karakakooa Bay, 
never rofe higher than 88°, and that but one day; its mean 
height, at noon, was 83°. In Wymoa Bay, its mean height 
at noon was 76°, and when out at fea, 75 0 . The mean 
height of the thermometer at noon, in Jamaica, is about 
86°, at fea 8o°. 
Whether they be fubjecft to the fame violent winds and 
hurricanes, we could not difcover, as we were not there in 
any of the ftormy months. However, as the natives gave 
us no pofitive teftimony of the fa£t, and no traces of their 
effects were any where vifible, it is probable that, in this 
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