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163. | 
NOVEMBER 1, 1 
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¢* As long as thofe who write are ambitious of making Conyercs, and Of giving to their Opinions a Maixmum o¢ ~ 
s* Influence and Celebrity, the moft extenfively circulated) Mifcellany will repay with the greateft Effect the 
4s Curiofity of thefe who read either for Amufement or Inftruction.” JOHNSON, i 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
STYLE of building, adopted in 
France many years ago, denomi- 
nated building en Prsé, has lately been 
strongly recommended by some indivi- 
duals ithis country, to the notice of the 
pablic. If the statements published in 
some very respectable periodical publi- 
cations, and* particularly in Nicholson’s 
gournal, may be depended upon as ap- 
plicable to this country, the utility of the 
invention in particular situations, and 
under certain circumstances, would be 
very great. To gentlemen of landed 
property, whose’ correct ideas of taste 
are not offended by the modest obtrusion 
upon their demesne of the humble cot- 
tage, or whose hearts are cheared by 
such visible demonstrations of comfort, 
connected with mdustry; but who have 
not the usual material of building cheaply 
at hand, a-well authenticated account of 
the practieal utility of this method of 
building would be truly acceptable. 
Permit me,therefore, to‘enquire, through 
the medium of your widely-circulating 
miscellany, if avy of your correspondents 
know any thing of the adoption of this 
building in Pisé, in this country, what 
has‘been its expence, the minutie of the 
_ process, and what its success, with the 
Jength of me it hath been submitted to 
trial Every particular relating to so 
interesting a subject, would be welcome. 
I should presame to the public, as well 
as to, Sir, AN Your’s, &c: 
The Boyce, J. H. Moceriper. 
Sept. 20,1807, - ~ 
eetrnee Sea 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
account of the DiscOvVERY of a GROUP 
of IsLanps in the sourH-sEA, by the.’ 
SPANISH FRIGATE LA PALA. 
N the voyage from Manilla to Lima, 
the Spanish frigate, La Pala, be- 
longing to the Philippine Company, com- 
manded by Don Juan Baptiste Monte= 
verde, discovered on the 18th of ebru- 
ary, 1806, a group of Islands, twenty- 
‘nine in number, the southernmost of 
.. Montusy Mac. No. 165, 
which is situated in 3 deg 29 min: north 
latitude, and 162 deg. 5 min. east lon- 
gitude from Cadiz. 
_ These Islands occupy a space of ten 
leagues, from north-east to south-west, 
and are separated from each other by 
channels of ore or two leagues in breadth. 
They are low, covered with wood, in- 
tersected with rivers, and well inha- 
bited. On the frigate coming in sight of 
the Islands, the inhabitants, who are of 
the most pacific disposition, first ap- 
proached her in two canoes, to the num- 
ber of twenty-one, and having come 
within musket-shot, they ceased rowing, 
and held up some cocoa-nuts to theSpanish 
sailors, at the same tune shouting and 
making signs. The frigate cleared her 
sails, and hoisted the Spanish coldurs ; 
which manceuvre having apparently ex= 
cited some apprehensions in the islan- 
ders, the Spanish colours were strack, 
and a.white flag hoisted, the crew at the 
same time calling and making signs to 
the canoes to approach. : 
Having come alongside, they gave the 
Spaniards some cocoa-nuts, without de- 
manding any thing im return, but none 
of them could be persuaded to come on 
board. The crew of the frigate then 
distributed among them some old knives, 
iron rings, and pieces of red cloth; and 
this liberality excited such joy and gra- 
titude in these good people, that they 
inmediatcly stripped their canoes to 
make presents to the Spaniards; their 
nets, their fish-hooks, their cocoa-nut- 
shells, which served them for drinking- 
cups, ther enormous hats, made of the 
leaves of the palm-tree, were all in a 
moment removed on board the frigate, 
and they at length proceeded to strip 
themselves of their only garment, fastened 
round their waist, in order to testify 
their gratitude to their benefactors. Still 
they were not content with themselves, 
and gave the Spaniards to understand 
that they would return to their Island to 
fetch other presents, requesting, by signs, 
that the frigate would wait for them. 
These: islanders: are tall, well made, 
robust, and jactiye. They are of an 
my. 
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