THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. XII. 
The Situation of the IJlands now difcovered.—'Their Names.—* 
Called the Sandwich IJlands.—Atooi defcribed.—Tbe Soil .— 
Climate.—Vegetable Productions. — Birds. — Pijh.—Domejlic 
Animals.—Perfons of the Inhabitants.—Their Difpojition .— 
Drefs. — Ornaments. •— Habitations. — Food. — Cookery .— 
AmuJ'ements. —* Manufactures. — Working-tools. — Know¬ 
ledge of Iron accounted for. — Canoes. — Agriculture. — Ac¬ 
count of one of their Chiefs. — Weapons.—Cujloms agreeing 
with thofe of Tongataboo and Otaheite.—Their Language 
the fame.*—Extent of this Nation throughout the Pacific 
Ocean.—Reflections on the ufeful Situation of the Sandwich 
IJlands „ 
I T is worthy of obfervation, that the iflands in the Par 
cific Ocean, which onr late voyages have added to the 
geography of the globe, have been generally found lying- 
in groups or clufters ; the bugle intermediate iflands, as yet 
difcovered, being few in proportion to the others ; though, 
probably, there are many more of them bill unknown, 
which ferve as fteps between the feveral clufters. Of what 
number this newly-difcovered Archipelago confifts, muft 
be left for future inveftigation. We faw five of them, whole 
names, as given to us by the natives, are Woahoo, Atooi, 
Oneeheow, Oreehoua, and Tahoora. The laft is a lmal -1 
elevated ifland, lying four or five leagues from the South 
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