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Morning I Went Ashore Myself, Carrying Pickaxes And Shovels With Me,
To Dig For Water, And Axes To Cut Wood.
We tried in several places
for water, but finding none after several trials, nor in several
miles compass, we left any further search for it, and spending the
rest of the day in cutting wood, we went aboard at night.
The land is of an indifferent height, so that it may be seen nine or
ten leagues off. It appears at a distance very even; but as you
come nigher you find there are many gentle risings, though none
steep or high. It is all a steep shore against the open sea; but in
this bay or sound we were now in, the land is low by the seaside,
rising gradually in with the land. The mould is sand by the
seaside, producing a large sort of samphire, which bears a white
flower. Farther in the mould is reddish, a sort of sand, producing
some grass, plants, and shrubs. The grass grows in great tufts as
big as a bushel, here and there a tuft, being intermixed with much
heath, much of the kind we have growing on our commons in England.
Of trees or shrubs here are divers sorts, but none above ten feet
high, their bodies about three feet about, and five or six feet high
before you come to the branches, which are bushy, and composed of
small twigs there spreading abroad, though thick set and full of
leaves, which were mostly long and narrow.
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