An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to ih~ $treightt of MageJÍari~ 3 s' ferent good Grafs ; the Soil gravelly :md f:mdy 3nd fome Ridgcs 01 Rocks. l hc.·y faw G"i:mac(le,, Ofir¡ches, Hares and Kites; feveral l.rtic Lre:i. tures Jike Efrs; nn k111d of Fruit or lkrrv, Mi– neral or Mc::al. I charged them ns tlicy tr~vclicd in any Gullies whcre \\'3t'::r had ru11 ro frarch •or Grains of Gold, or other Mt'ta1 , 01c. for Gol<~ is found in Grains in íuch Gull1es arid much Gold ~ found iri the Land on the other tide, noc t ,\ o hundred Leagues diflant from u~; much S,dt– Pttreo hángs 011 the Earth where \Va ter has beei:, iri akind ot Flower: the Pláll1es of water. thev mee with were asfaltas Brine, which the Farrh ~nat.!e. I faw Smelts here eighteen in ches long I y I ng d, ad n the tl1ore; but hi~herto have not fr~n onc yílcr, or other Shell fith, Crawfith. Lobt '. er or rab, t~ough 'tis pofübJe the place may have 'eni . Whilft we were fiarididg by the Warc:r íide, Sea) chafed on 1hore a Fith a, forgc asa ~Aackrc~ nd like a Mullet; one of the men rook it up, :md refied it, when he carne ori Board 'twas ~xcel.:. t good. Herc muíl: be a great quantity of Fiíh to aintain all the Seals, Penguins,and orher FO\\. Is t live upen nothing tlfe, and yet are all ream fat, and innumerable irt aiultitudc; bc 7 es what Creatures we have not feen yet; I ve feen Seals in this Harbour fwimmirig wirh iu ir Heads above Water, with l:irge Fifü in their ouths. S""'"J, March q. IndHfetent \re:ithef, Wind Weft, a frelh 9ale: l'he Air cold chis morning. went up the Rivet in iny Boat wirh tóurteeri narmed : I paft the Iíland, \\ here thc bru fhy D 2. Buthes