An account of several late voyages and discoveries

~ 40 Sir J ohn Narbrough', Yo,age ot P1Jrt St. J"l,a11 Harbour : trelh Water is fcarte in Pnrt Dffi,.,1 Harbour in thc ~ummcr time: thc places iro•n whc·nce 1 fetched Water, are fmall Spr1ng<; on tht' Norrh fide, out ot which I fillcd n~artorry 1 ·uns: the fir(l: Spring is on the North fine a., y 0u entcr the Harbour, half a mile upa Valle,·, tn :1 Gully or Rocks: it bears N. N. W. frnm t.h~ Jov\er Rock: Tbat wc called Pecket's J,Fe/1. is a m1le up the River, within a Bow fliat 01 the faltWater,'tis in a Gully. Th~ Land in thcfe Vallcys has very green and fwect Grafs, and abundance ofwild Peafe. fmall Nut-gallsgrowing on che Bu:hes, but in no great quanrity, and but fow Eufllcs ~ Salt may be had here ; for on the fhorc fide . and on the Rocks I gathered feveral handtuls of good S4/t. M,1rch 25. Ge11t/eme11, rou are !J, me dtjireJ fo tak.: notice, that tbis Day 1 tAke poffejion o/ this Fbr'1our and Rivtr of Port Deíier, aná o/ al/ tht· LaJtrl in thi, Cou11try_ on /,oth Sbores, for 1 the 11./e of his ft'Jaje/ly Kini Charles the Second,, Grt:n Br :rain , and his líeirs. God {ave our Ki111,, , andji,etÍ Three Ordn:mce. S"turday, .M,1rch 26. Wind at Wefr, a ílout r Gale. I ilood to the Northward : th1s morning at tix a Clock when the S1111 appeared above th Eafl Horizon, the Moon fet in the Wefr Horizo being eclipfed at Londo» at Eleven a Clock, te minutes in rhe forenoon, but here at úx a Cloc thirty mmutes paft, which gives iour hours fo rninucesdifference of ·time, betwecn the Mcridia ne ~f London and the Merid;an of Cape Blanco y.,hi~h Cape líes in the Latitude of 47 d. 2.0 ·· · ' ~outh