An account of several late voyages and discoveries

8 2 Sir John Narbrougl1' s Voyage in it, and foul Groum.l, fo as I durft not vcnture thc Ship in it. This líland ll1e\\'Cll as if it had been the Main, till I went to it with the íl<Jat· being about four Leagues long from the North'. point to the South-point, and in fome places a Leag111e broaJ. The Iíland is of a mean hcjgh~ and in fome places two Leaguc/i brood, and grown all over witb . W oods very thick: the Timbcr ~ fuch like as is on the Ifle of Socoro. J could n· fee any kind of Mineral or Metal in it ; tne Shorc ftde fandy in many places, and rocky in others the Earth on this líland is of a fandy black foi but very wet with the continua( Rains that ar here. N ot finding this noted in my Draughts, eall'd it after my own Name Narvrougl/s lfland; took potfeffion of it for his Majeíly and bis Heirs I could not fce any People, or any figo of the here. South-eaíl: fromNar!JrouJ/ls l}land on the Mai difiant aboot three LeagHes, there runs into Landa. R.iver or Sound, and fome broken grou Jies before it. The Shore-fide is rocky, an<l 1 Hills are high in the Land on both fides of This opening lies in Eaíl and Wefi; I take it .that place which in the Draughts is call'd Sa' Domingo. This place lics in the Latitude of fo four Dcgrees, fifty Minutes South; an~ more thc Southward thcreof lic many round copli high Iflands grown over with Woods: ali al thc Coafis as far as I could fee, therc lie Iíla adjacent to thc Main ) ami they are of :1 gr 1 height.