assigned for this depopulation. Vide A Voyage round the World in the Years
1835-36-37. By W.S. Ruschenberger, M.D. (Philadelphia, 1838, 8vo.) The chapter
on the Sandwich Islands.
33 Perhaps the finest sweet potato in the world. It derives its name from a
district of Peru, near Cape Blanco, very favourable to its growth; where, also,
it is extensively cultivated: the root is very large; sometimes as big as a
good-sized melon.
 
34 Perhaps the most remarkable volcanoes in the world. For very interesting
accounts of three adventurous expeditions to their summits (seventeen thousand
feet above the level of the sea) see Lord Byron's Voyage of H.B.M. Ship Blonde;
Ellis's Journal of a Visit to the Sandwich Islands; and Wilkie's Narrative of
the U.S. Exploring Expedition.
 
35 This anomaly exists, notwithstanding that, in other respects, the
missionaries have endeavoured to organise the native courts upon the English
model.