An account of several late voyages and discoveries

74 Sir John Narbrough's Poyage noon ; 1 went afllore after I had done Sounding, laut faw no People, nor any Metal ; thc Woods very thkk, and feveral Trecs of thc hot Bark, the other Trecs much like Beccll-timber: fome Ducks and Brant-Gcefe fcen on the Shore fide. The Strcight in this Reach between Eli:a,eth' 1 Bay and St. Jerom's River is about two League~ broad and liigh Land on the South-fide; whic hath fevcral btave Coves on it like the\Vet Doc at Dtptfortl,and fafe to )ay Ships in rhcm from ei thcr much \Vind or any Sea. This Ba y I call' M11fclt Bar, for in it there are many ,.nd great plcn ty of good Mufcles. The Shorc-fides are rockv fleep too in moft places; no Ground in thc mal Channel at an hu:1dred Fathom; alfo in the Bay . pn the South-íide it is deep Water, and fma Iflands lie in the Bays, aqd clofe along the S0u1h fllore Jie fmall IQands. Here are many Whal and 1 faw many Penguins, and fome Seals. T Shores are woody on both fides, but raggcd Ti ber and boggy Ground; the tops ot the Hil bare Rocks and irregular. Several flreams Snov.-·. water run down in the C.liffs of thc Hill two Lcagues to thc Weftward of Eliza~etl/s Ba On the North-íllore thc Land is low and wooll pear the Water-fidc, nnd up of a VaHey in t Low-land : In this Valley there runs a frcfh W . ter-River; I went into it with my Boat: lt but lhallow at low Water, hardly \Vater cnou for my Boat: Here I faw feveral Arbours of t I11dia111 making, but no People. This Rivcr a vcry convcnicnt place to lay Shallops , fucll like ímall V dfels in it ; they nu y go i