An account of several late voyages and discoveries

·118 Sir John Narbrough's Vova:ge The North-fide of the Streights from Cape Vi. éfory,all along to che Eaft-ward to CtltJe }'ro-~Jard is all a ragged, rocky, moun.tainous, d(: foh ~ Councry; man y high rock y Hfands, and fmdl Rocks, and fucking Rocks lie on thc Nonh-fide o .-· rhc Strc:ights, at coming out or Ma)· riel Z1tr l 5 Lcagucs in diíl:a:1ce im:o thc Streights ro th; Eaílward. Therc alío run great Sounds and W arcrs imo che North- Land, which fhew like a P:lífage more than the Scréfghts doth. Th<.rc iÍ no SJ.f:ty for a Ship to k ecp che North-fhore , board in chis Part; for herc líe fo many I1and and Rocks, fo that if the Weathcr prov.: fogg· :md thick, a Man may miíbkc che right Ch.. ~ nd, and íkcr in among the brok-' n HiJnds an Rocks, fo far as to cndangcr his Ship, if th -,v ind be \Veftcrly, and it is for the mofi: parr che ,vinter rhere, very thickani.l foggy. l-kre are many Sounds and Cov·.:s on t North-f:dc, bctween Ca¡:e Vi{fory and Cape 0(ta: but how far thcy run Üw:> thc Land, I know !1 I wantcd .:i Sloop, or fo·.ne orhcr fma!l VdfcJ, d ;fcovcr chofe Sounds 1 and man y orhe:r PI.ices k che Scrci3hts, which I would gladly havc frcn fai Jamtary 6. In Tuefla,y-~ay ,md ljland-~ ~n thcre grows thick fhrubby Hufhcs on thr lo au Lmd, which tuve m ;my Bcrrics likc Hnrt~gro J~f ing on thcm·: thcfc Buihcs grow in a mofiy 1 Earrh, which lieth 4 or 5 fc<:t thick on thc Ro mt thcfe Buihcs will fcrvc.: for l:ncl : Thcrc grows ·orl long fedgy Grafs vcry rhick; many Gcrfc rl Ducks do fnakc rh,.:ir Ndl:s, and brccd in ir, oth<::r S.:J..,..fowl; Hcrc are Duc.!(s, white and. H:-

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