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Some account of St Helena

Had our stay upon the Island been Longer we should in all probability have discoverd some more natural productions but in all likelyhood not many  Secluded as this rock is from the rest of the World by seas of immence extent it is dificult to imagine how any thing not originaly created in that spot could by any accident arrive at it  for my part I confess I feel more matter of wonder in the finding a little Snail on the top of the Ridges of St Helena than in finding people upon america or any other part of the Globe.

as the benefits of the Land are so limited the Sea must often be applied to by the natives of this little rock nor is she unmindfull of their necessities which she constantly supplies with immence plenty & no less variety of Fish  She indeed would be culpable did she do otherwise  she never met with a calamity equal to that of the Earth in the General Deluge  & her sons have moreover the
 

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