AND POSITION.

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the island from east to west, is next in height, and first in extent.Its length is that of the island ; about twenty-two miles.

Besides these principal hills, which will be more particularlydescribed, several other parts of the island rise to a considerableheight. Parkhurst forest, has in it eminences which probablyexceed four hundred feet ; and the clay hills, which form thewestern boundary of the Freshwater inlet, and whose faces areopen to the sea in Colwell and Totland bays, are not much less.Several parts of the land which divides the vale of Medina fromthe south-eastern bason are also of considerable height.

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