An account of several late voyages and discoveries

ro the Streightl of Magell~n~ ·, J mile to th~ Weílward of it; having a fine :ta. !crly galc. · t,Joif/aj, lfO'Ue'!'ltr 7. Cloudy gufis,. foggy n·earher; thc Wmd at Wcft, and ·fomet1mes at Xorth·weíl:: I rode fafi all day clofe aboard th~ ore~ "Thi:; Afternoon I went in my Boat ovcr o thc South-fide~' oppofite fo Eli11.q_letlls Bay, at e Point call'd Whale P(Ji11t, for thc many \Vhnles uting thereby~ · I tra'véll'd up the Hills two iles, bue coul<l qot fec any Góld or Metal ; the and vcry irregular and Rocky; with molry kind i Grats growing on it, and very bóggy a~d roe... a; for I thruil down á Lance of fü,~~en Fect g, into che Ground,with one hand v.ery eafily. ere grow many Juniper Tr'ees, fome of a foot roughout,chc Woocl not very fweet. Here I lÍl\V any Brant-Geefe and Ducks, much Snow on thé 13nd Mountains , fo as I could not travel any rther : I returned down to thc Boat again : I 1v where cho Natives had been by the evening the Grafs, but I could not have a light of any. t ere are many good Mufdcs on che Rocks offive ches long , and good Fifü in them, and many ed Pcarls in every Mufcle: Here are alfo large 'mpets, and Sea-eggs among the Rocks. All the Ripling is not worch che taking notice , for it is but an hours time on both Tidcs Ebb dFloud, when the Tide runs firong ; neithcr the Tides any thing prejudicial to the Navi- 11 tion of che Streight, but rather advantagious to lp to turn from Ro:id to Road eicher way : F or have had a benefit of them in plying from place 1 place. The \Veather inditfercnt this After– noon: