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Some account of Savu

a drop of Rain interveening  the last rainy season having intirely faild them  verdure indeed there was at this time no signs of  but the gentle sloping of the hills which were cleard quite to the top & planted in every part with thick groves of the fan Palm  besides woods almost of Cocoa nut trees & Arecas which grew near the Sea side  filld the eye so compleatly that it hardly lookd for or missd the verdure of the Earth  a circumstance seldom seen in any perfection so near the line  how beautifull it must appear when coverd with its springing crop of Maize  Millet  Indigo &c. which covers almost every foot of ground in the cultivated parts of the Island imagination can hardly conceive: the verdure of Europe set of by the stately pillars of India  Palms I mean  especialy the Fan palm which for stereightness & proportion both of the stem to itself & the head to the stem far excells all the Palms that I have seen   requires a poetical imagination to describe & mind not unaquainted with such sights to conceive
[Margin note] Produce
The productions of this Island are Buffaloes. sheep. hogs. fowls. Horses. Asses. Maize
 

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