GLAND

is ituated in th Pal: me situa n the/ o Bouthern PeciSc Ocean, 130° west long i-| the tude. IS was discovered in 1769, and in| Alle 1790 wes pocpled by the mutineers of the | van: Bounty. ES pat population, which | coal numbers efont 120, is descended from | spec the moiiaces, who intermarricd with | war Tahitian weooem. Owing to constant/ firm {ntermarric , the great majority of the — eae fcbabitests are little better than | ing PIT. biack and brittle | i i 3,6, black and very elin 1 substancs, Sas obtained by distilling | by t Wood, tar, coal-tar, etc. As a reauit of/o ur distiizticn a epirit is given off, and the | supr polid cabstenco known as pitch remains. | of u Ié & sed in canlking the ceams of} depr ships, fael, end in the manufacture } info of asphalt end Iamp biack. Burgundy | Vati _ is really a resin, and is obtained | the: the sproce-fr. P] [s. 244]