An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to tbe Streights o( Magellan.~ 37 J!1 a hale of the Poft lay a Latten or Tin Bol', (which we found by a Jon3 Plug that fiuck in rhe Hole) with a fheet of writtcn paper cnclofed in it, but fo caten by the R.uft of the Box, that 'm•as not to be read. I cut out with my knife up. on a Board the Ship•s name, and the Date of the Year and Month, which I nailed to the Poil:; ar.d brought away the Lead with me, and narr ..ed the place Le Mair's I./lmul: We found on it feveral pieces of Hoards, of the Wrecks of fome íhip that had been burned; they were drovc up here by the Tide : The people of the Country can't get upon this If1and. f rom hence I went on thc North fide of the Rivcr two :nilcs into the L:md; no Trecs to be feen,but rnany Oíl:riches ami Guia11~ co~s in many places. The Soil is marJy and good, rhe Hill, not very high, but plain Jarge Downs, with Grafs on them all over. Ojgging m two or thrce places I found fand y dry Ground near a foot deep, trien Marle. In my opinion it might be madc excellent Corn ground, being ready to till : 'Tis very Jike the Land on New /11.11 ket Heath;no Peoplc to be fcen. 1 fearched thc Gullics .ind bro. ken Rocks, for Graim of Gold or Mineralc;, but found neither. I return'd to thc lloat agam, row– ed farther under the füore, landed, a.nd mountcd aíleep high Hill to view the Country. .On the top of this rocky Hilf grow fm:ill Bufücs. I conld foc the courfc of the Rivera long way furrher,and rhc and all Grafs; here and there a whitc fpot of farle on the fide ot a Hill ; no people to be íeen or Boatson theRiver: I camedown coche Boat: everal Creeks run from hence a mile or two inro D 3 thc