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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 3
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It is a long square of Stonework built Pyramidically; its base is 267 feet by 87 feet; at the Top it is 250 feet by 8 feet.

It is built in the same manner as we do steps leading up to a Sun Dial or fountain erected in the Middle of a Square where there is a flite of steps on each side.

In this building there are 11 of such steps; each step is about 4 feet in height and the breadth 4 feet 7 inches, but they decreased both in height and breadth from the bottom to the Top.

On the middle of the Top stood the Image of a Bird carved in Wood, near it lay the broken one of a Fish carved in stone.

There was no hollow or Cavity in the inside, the whole being fill'd up with stones.


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