. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . six to nine broad. With the exception of sevenmiles of level land, now covered with wood, Tobago showsgenerally a surface broken and rumpled by alternatestretches of steep hills and deep and narrow ravines, shoot-ing direct or winding from the main or dorsal ridge of themountain, and from these branches, as though torn -off,stand occasionally aloof beautiful mounds of isolated height of the mountain range computed at eighteenhundred feet. The island is well watered by rivulets andstreams. A belt of cultivation extends halfway round itssou
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . six to nine broad. With the exception of sevenmiles of level land, now covered with wood, Tobago showsgenerally a surface broken and rumpled by alternatestretches of steep hills and deep and narrow ravines, shoot-ing direct or winding from the main or dorsal ridge of themountain, and from these branches, as though torn -off,stand occasionally aloof beautiful mounds of isolated height of the mountain range computed at eighteenhundred feet. The island is well watered by rivulets andstreams. A belt of cultivation extends halfway round itssouthern, eastern, and western sides. THE LIFE And Strange Surprizing ADVENTURES ROBINSON CRUSOE, Of TORIC, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone inan un-inhabitedKland on the Coaft of America,near the Mouth or the Great River oiOroonoaue; Having been caft on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perifhed but himfelf. With an ACCOUNT how he was at laft asftrangely dcliverd by Pyrates. Written by Himfelf. %\t {E)itD ( LONDON: Printed for W. Taylor at theShip in Pater-Nofler-Roxv. Mdccxix. Title-page of 258 CRUSOES ISLAND. THE NAME OP CRUSOE. ... It was stated some time since, in a magazine,that Defoe first met with the name Robinson Crusoe ona tombstone in a graveyard, at Lynn Regis. . Duringthe war between Trance and Great Britain, in the earlypart of the present century, John Crusoe, of Lynn Regis,was in the navy, and participated in the glorious action ofTrafalgar. In 1815 he emigrated to Fayetteville, N. C,where he resided many years. A diary of his voyages inhis own handwriting is in existence, and gives evidence ofscholarship and a mind of more than ordinary 1835 he visited Europe, and his diary is filled with in-teresting evidences of his journey. His grandchildren arenow, and have been for some years, highly esteemed resi-dents of Versailles (?), United States, and one of them bearsthe name of Robinson Du Bretz Crusoe. Prom th
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