An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to the Streigbts of MageHan~ 69' any Timber like ours in Engla,ul: Here are but r"'º forts of Timber in all thefe Woods, and ene is tbe Pepper-rind Tree, \\ hich is indiffercnt \\'ood, and the other is the Timber much like Bcech. Here are thc beíl: and biggeíl: Trces in ali the Streigl,ts ; herc are Trces of two foot and an !ulf through, and between thirty and forty feet long; there may be great Planks cut out of 'cm. could not fee aoy Grains of Metal or Mineral in :iny place, and J looked vcry carefuily in Gul– ies, and places where Water bad guttered. Here e fome Herbs to ce plucked up, as we boiled orSalleting,and green Grafs with it,which relifh. pretty weJI. Tbe Land in the Woods is dry, ad of a gravelly and fandy Soil, and fome places ood brown Earth; it is bad travelling in the ~oods for old Trees and Under-Woods : The \'oods trent aJI up on the fides of the Bilis; the and all about on the North-weíl: and We~ of ort Fumen, trents up to very high Hills, and he In land is very high Hills; for wc c:in fee the ops of them ali barren and ragged, pceping ovcr ofe Mountains next to the .'Shore-íide; much ·now lies continually on them. The Land on e South-íhore is véry high and peaked. I faw many Dueles and Brant-Geefe on the ore-fides, and in the freíh Watcrs,together with me Whales fpouting in the Main Channel. Ido verily bclieve that in thefe Mountains, ,ere is fome Metal, either Gold or Copper; for he Man that went aboard, pointed up to the ounrai!ls, and fpake to me \\:hen I iliewed him y Ring. Thefe pcopJe eat up che Provifion . f 3 which.