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Contributions raised, and vast Sums Collected, but no Taxes lessen'd; whole Plate Fleets surpriz'd, but no Treasure found; vaft Sums lost by Enemies, and yet never found by Friends, Ships loaded with
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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There was alfo at no great diftance a number of etooa trees, on - which clung, vaft quantities of the large temate bats, making a difagreeable noife.
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This miracle of nature is laid to pro* ceed from the vaft body of clouds that hang about the tree all night and a great part of the day.
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Among the other frogs I procured in my excurfions, there is one remarkable on account of a vaft number of black fpots, round, circled with a white ring, and fprinkled on a ground of brown colour: I called it hyla ocellata N.
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On the 30th they ran upwards of fifty leagues, through vaft numbers of land in - fers, fome in the air, and others upon the water; they appeared to refemble exaftly the flies that are feen in England, though they were thirty leagues from land, and fome of thefe infefts never quit it beyond a few yards.
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There are many other articles of lefs note, that employ the fpare time of their females; as combs, of which they make vaft numbers; and little bafkets with fmall beads; but all finifhed with fuch neatnefs and tafte in the dif - pofition of the various parts, that a ftranger cannot help admiring their afEduity and dexterity..
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This vaft gulf has the appearance of the mouth of a very confiderable river, and is terminated, after narrowing by almoft infenfible degrees towards the extremity, by banks of fand.
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In a little time we doubled Cape Portland, a low land, covered with buflies, but of granitic ftru£lure: here is feen a vaft flat, which in tempeftuous weather we prefumed is overflowed by the fea, as it is wholly deftitute of trees, and covered with mud.
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The natives brought a vaft deal of it every day to thofe aboard and afliore: for fome of our men were afliore at woiic on Bafliee Ifland; which ifland they gave that name to from their drinking this liquor there; that being the name which the natives call this liquor by: and as they fold it to our men very cheap, fo they did not feare to drink it as freely.
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Numerous. detachments, like fo manv videttes, preceded the main body, approached very near to us, and rounded our flup in every diredion; the rapidity of their evolutions, and the boldnefs of their leaps, interefted us the more from our never having feen till now fo vaft aflioal of cetaceous animals.
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