An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to th~ Streightl of Magellan; 51 he Woods are vcry rhick and green, and m:.1ch Id Wood líes on the Ground, fo as rherc is no velling into the Woods. I was aíhore lookiog and fro here threc hours: I call'd rhis Fref/,- attr 89; this. is ncar ninc Leagues to thc South– d of Sweep/lalces Bay. Sand-point is a meaJt Point, Jíes out more than the othcr Points of eShore, and few Trées grow on it. lt is fix Leagues from Fre.Jh·waur Bay, to Port e11 South and North from the onc to thc poirlt the othcr: that neareft Fort Fame11 cannot be n, as you come from the Nortbward, till you e to bring the Poirlt S. A1111e up on the North·- fr of you, for the Bay líes up in a little hook e orth-weft, and the Larid on the Wefl: fide of the y is low ia a Póint, and fandy, and fome Grafs e ws on it, and much drift- W ood Hes on it like arpcrtters-yard: a little within Land from the aterfide grow brave green Woods,and up in the eys, large Timber-trees, two foot throughout fome upwards of 40 Feet long; inuch like our h timber in E"'bland; che Leaves of the Trees like green Birch-tree Leaves, curiouíly f wcet; Wood íhews in mariy places as if there weré tations: for there are fevcral clear places iri Woods, alid Grafs growing like fenc'd Fiekls · lanJ; the Woods being focven by the fides ~, and on Point Saint Anne a~ you come g from the Nórthward , you will ~e good es :md tall Ttees grow on the very point of it : · Point is rocky on the Shore-fide, but no dari– lies of it; you may be bold on it to get intd Famen Bay. F ,¡. Here