An account of several late voyages and discoveries

the Str~ighu of MageJlan~ 3 9 Mi11eral or Metal fecn. This afternoon we return– ed to our Boat, :ind wcnt through a Creek two ftfiies !011g, which is dry at Loru JVnter, and not more than thirry for.t broad. Ir makes a fair Jfland of a mean heigltth, plain on the Top, and Grafs growing a!I over it, but no Woorl nor U-'ater upon it : the greatefl: part of it is a fandy marly Soil: 'tis two miles long, and half a mile broad: dio Greyhound killed rwo Hares 011 ir. prefeHtl)', 1nd we faw abovc twcnty. I call'd it H:1re I}land: it is adjacent to the South Shore; eight miles up he River from the narrow, I went down thcRiver nd went aboard. This Evcningcold Air, wind at ·eíl, a fl:out gale: towar<ls morning it carne to . 'orth. I cannot pcrccive the IndianJ have any noas or oi:her Boars herc. M11rcl1 2.4, Blowing weather, wind at \\'Cít. 1 Ve fetcht ali our things off the ílmrc,nnd got thc ip ready to fail. l wenc athore (.)0 thc South eto the peeked Rock, and found it a natural ock, fianding on a fmall round Hill, :'lS if it had en /Juilt there by Man. Je li:nh a Clefr on che l etop ofitas b:g in órcumfon:n:::e :is a Bue : 'ris e qo foot h:gh abovc the / :bl/it ílands 011;1bout I, lie little lumps of Rocks. I faw nothing elfo r: orth notice, fo I returned to the Ship ; the b:g- 1n fr fück growing Íil ornear chis Harbour, or 10 te e Countries as tar as wc wcnr, which was 2.·e: ;s iles, wou'd not makc a f-le/ve for a Hatchet, bu:. 'al re are Bulhes which \\'ill forve ten· firing ar St.i: lle fore night I had .1/1 tbin,l,1 on board, and the r: i~ littcd with inter;t to fail next morning, and no ked along the Coafts. for the Pink, till I arrived ral O 4· J~