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Oohoorage

we were not   after this visit we proceeded & soon met with another town with but few inhabitants   above this the banks of the river were compleatly cloathd with the finest timber my Eyes ever beheld  of a tree we had before seen but only at a distance in Poverty bay & Hawks bay  thick woods of it were every where upon the Banks  every tree as streight as a pine & of immense size   still the higher we came the more numerous they were   about 2 leagues from the mouth we stopd & went ashore   our first business was to measure one of these trees   the woods were swampy so we could not range far   we found one however by no means the largest we had seen which was feet in circumference & in hight without a branch   but what was most remarkable was that it  as well as many more that we saw  carried its thickness so truely up to the very top that I dare venture to affirm that the top where the first lowest branch took its rise was not a foot less in diameter than where we measurd  which was about 8 feet from the ground   we cut down a young one of these trees  the wood provd most heavy & solid  too much so for mast but would make the finest
 

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