feafon

It is true, during that feafon, which is the winter of the fouthern hemifphere, it is dangerous to make the Cape; * becaufe the weftern monfoon, which then pre - vails, caufes heavy gales there; and on the coafts of India, lying oppofite to the Cape.

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The foil of the plain, efpe - dally about Mufl*elbttrgh, being remarkably dry, and a conflant brilliancy and freflineis flowing from the river and the adjacent & a, there is a foftnels and amenity in the air through the whcJe feafon, that is feldom to be met with in any other fituation in this northern climate.

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In Georgia there is often a great deal of thunder and lightning in the fpring-feafon, which is apt to affecl: and injure the (ilk-worm; whereas, in Flo - rida, where frequent fhowers refrefh the air, and the fea-breezes keep it in conflant agitation, the. thunder is neither fo common nor fo violent.

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The environs at Batavia are very pleafant, and are almoft every where interfered with rivulets, by which the circumjacent rice plantations Jure inundated, and fertilized in the proper feafon.

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The cloves grow at the end of fmall branches, in clufl: ers of from ten to twenty; and the tree, according to the feafon, fends forth more on one fide than the other.

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At the time the Endeavour lay there it was near the end of the dry feafon, when it had not rained for almoft feven months, nor was there a running ftream of frefli water to be feen, and the natives were fupplied only by fmall fprings, fituated at a diftance up the country.

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In the fouth eaft is a fmall river which brought down at this time a pretty confiderable volume of frefli water; this alfo is of greater value, as in the hot feafon of the year, that which then reigned, all the neighbouring parts of the con - tinent and the iflands are nearly deftitute of this article.

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* Valcntyn mentions a clove-tree upon Hoewarooehily that was known to be one hundred and thirtjr years old» and to batre yielded in one feafon two bhars, or i»ioolb« of cloves.

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Tlie firfl juice which is eitrafled from die maples in the fpring is fwcetcr than that which 6ows at the end of the feafon, when ii has the fade which in Cannda i& called the tailc of ihc fap.

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Their principal provifions amd houfe - hold furniture were therefore put on board feveral fmall veiTels, which, by reafon of delays and the tempeftuouf - nefs of the feafon, were cither cafh away or did not ar - rive.

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