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the help of dynamite it would really not be difficult to blow 
up the bar of the harbour and make the entrance deeper. 
Many considerations, however, were loud against the 
plan. Setting aside the fact that ships avoid this 
region of the sea on account of the violent cyclones, the 
harbour is by no means sale. Violent gusts of wind from 
the south-west break on the high walls of the crater 
and produce whirlwinds which often tear the ships from 
their anchorao^e. Hitherto it has been thouorht sufficient 
to make stores of provisions and clothes, so that ship¬ 
wrecked people may find what is most necessary for 
their wants. 
