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Some account of St Helena

This small Island  which is no more than twelve miles long & seven broad  is situated in a manner in the Middle of the Vast Atlantick Ocean having being 400 Lgs. distant from the Coast of Africa & above 600 from that of America  it appears to be or rather is the summit of Some immence mountain which towering far above the Level of the Earth (in this part of the Globe very much depressd) Elevates itself even considerably above the surface of the Sea which covers its highest neigbours with a body of water even to this time unfathomable to the researches of Mankind

The higher parts of all Countreys have been observd almost without exception to be the seats of Volcanoes while the Lower parts are much seldomer found to be so  Etna & Vesuvius have no Land higher than themselves in their neighbourhood  Heckla is the Highest hill in Iceland  in the highest part of the Andes in South america volcanoes are frequent
 

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