this iſland is high, but that, on the Weſt ſide, is the higheſt and preſents itſelf in the form of a round hill. The Eaſtern ſide appears to be much broken, the land ſloping in moſt parts, abruptly to the ſea, but in others, preſenting bold and perpendicular cliffs. There are alſo many ſurrounding iſlets whoſe tops are generally covered with trees; but the ſoil nevertheleſs is ſhallow, and the lower part is, as if it were a ring of white barren rock, down to the ſurface of the ſea.
The main iſland does not appear to poſſeſs a ſpot, where trees can grow, that is not covered with them, or ſome kind of buſhy plant, which when blended with the barreneſs of intervening rocks, produces a pictureſque effect; while the ſtreams, that pour down from their various fountains to the ſea, greatly heighten the beauty of the ſcene. It is Otaheite on a ſmall ſcale, but without the advantage of its climate, or the hoſpitality of its inhabitants.
about twenty gallons of the milk: then they all ſat down, and drank healths to the King, Queen, &c. They drank an exceſſive quantity, yet it did not end in drunkenneſs; but, however, that ſort of liquor had ſo chilled and benumbed their nerves, that they could neither go nor ſtand: nor could they return on board the ſhip, without the help of thoſe, who had not been partakers in the frolic; nor did they recover it under four or five days time.
