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to each other, form fine fpacious public roads, that would 
appear ornamental in countries where rural conveniences 
have been carried to the greatefl perfection. We obferved 
large fpots covered with the paper mulberry-trees ; and the 
plantations, in general, were well flocked with fuch roots 
and fruits as are the natural produce of the ifland. To 
thefe I made fome addition, by fowing the feeds of Indian 
corn, melons, pumpkins, and the like. At one place was 
a houfe, four or five times as large as thofe of the com¬ 
mon fort, with a large area of grafs before it; and, I take 
it for granted, the people refort thither on certain public 
occafions. Near the landing-place, we faw a mount, two 
or three feet high, covered with gravel; and on it flood 
four or five fmall huts, in which, the natives told us, 
the bodies of fome of their principal people had been 
interred. 
The ifland is not above feven miles long ; and, in fome 
places, not above two or three broad. The Eaft fide of it, 
which is expofed to the trade-wind, has a reef, running to 
a confiderable breadth from it, on which the fea breaks 
with great violence. It is a continuation of this reef that 
joins Lefooga to Foa, which is not above half a mile 
diilant; and, at low water, the natives can walk upon this 
reef, which is then partly dry, from the one illand to the 
other. The fliore itfelf is either a coral rock, fix or feven 
feet high, or a fandy beach; but higher than the Weft 
fide; which, in general, is not more than three or four 
feet from the level of the fea, with a fandy beach its whole 
length. 
When I returned from my excurfion into the country, 
and went on board to dinner, I found a large failing canoe 
fall to the drip’s flern. In this canoe was Latooliboula, 
Vol. I. LI whom 
