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North West Harbour
Points T & U enclose a perfectly secure and commodious harbour, accessible to the largest Ships by a channel, with six fathoms water; the bottom soft blue mud. At the head of the harbour the land rises from abrupt Cliffs to Downs where the soil is maile, without any mixture of sand or mold, and parched for want of Moisture; at a short distance behind these Downs, veins of a deep black mold over maile, are found in several places, but particularly in a hollow between two gentle ascents, where the soil is extremely rich three feet deep, and covered with luxuriant grass, in the bottom are several pools of fresh water and the beds of many others which are now dry, doubtless without proper precautions the heats of summer would make them all so, but I am of opinion that by uniting several of the pools into a large reservoir, of a good depth well shaded (as is the method in the dry parts of India) a constant supply of water might be retained; the bottom of the ponds are loose black stones, and round them
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