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A VOYAGE TO 
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June. 
feCt in fuch a place. There was, alfo, a row of low palms 
near one of the houfes, and behind it a ditch, in which 
lay a great number of old bafkets. Mr. Webber’s draw¬ 
ing of this fiatooka , will fupply the defers of my de¬ 
fer iption. 
After dinner, or rather after we had refrefhed ourfelves 
with fome provilions which we had brought with us from 
our blip, we made an excurlion into the country, taking a 
pretty large circuit, attended by one of the king’s minifters. 
Our train was not great, as he would not fuffer the rabble 
to follow us. He alfo obliged all thofe whom we met upon 
our progrels, to fit down, till we had palfed; which is a 
mark of refpeCt due only to their Sovereigns. We found 
by far the greateft part of the country cultivated, and 
planted with various forts of productions; and mob of 
thefe plantations were fenced round. Some fpots, where 
plantations had been formerly, now produced nothing, ly¬ 
ing fallow; and there were places that had never been 
touched, but lay in a bate of nature ; and, yet, even thefe 
were ufeful, in affording them timber, as they were gene¬ 
rally covered with trees. We met with feveral large unin¬ 
habited houfes, which, we were told, belonged to the king. 
There were many public and well-beaten roads, and abun¬ 
dance of foot-paths leading to every part of the idand. 
The roads being good, and the country level, travelling 
was very eafy. It is remarkable, that when we were on 
the mob elevated parts, at leab a hundred feet above the 
level of the fea, we often met with the fame coral rock, 
which is found at the diore, projecting above the furface, 
and perforated and cut into all thofe inequalities which are 
ufually feen in rocks that lie within the wadi of the tide. 
And yet thefe very fpots, with hardly any foil upon them, 
were 
