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Show Wort Than DvW$ Itland Easter Island in the South PacISc Is about the most undesirable place on earth for human habitation. No trees grow on the. Inland because It lacks water and no birds will live there on account of their being no worms. The island Is Irregular In shape, being twelve miles by nine, by seven, and is very seldom visited by ships. Two hundred Polynesians Inhabit' It, and they suffer continually from hunger. It was first sighted la 1686. It was explored In 1722 and the Island then bad 2,000 ' Inhabitants. Scientific American. " |