This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...in fine after many debatings, pro & contra, it was reolued1 to stay a further resolutio: this matter also quieted, I set forward 2 to finish this discouery, which as yet I had neglected in regard of ye neceflitie we had to take in prouision while it was to be had: 40. miles I pasted vp y riuer, which for the most part ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...in fine after many debatings, pro & contra, it was reolued1 to stay a further resolutio: this matter also quieted, I set forward 2 to finish this discouery, which as yet I had neglected in regard of ye neceflitie we had to take in prouision while it was to be had: 40. miles I pasted vp y riuer, which for the most part is a quarter of a mile broad, & 3. fatham & a half deep, exceeding osey, many great low marshes, & many high lads, especially about ye midst at a place called Moysonicke,3 a Peninsule of 4. miles cicuit, betwixt two riuers ioyned to the main, by a necke of 40. or 50. yards, and 40. or 50 yards from the high water marke: on both fides in the very neck of the maine, are high hills and dales, yet much inhabited, the He declining in a plaine fertile come field, the lower end a low marsh, more plentie of swannes, cranes, geese, duckes, and mallards, & diuers sorts of fowles none would desire: more plaine fertile planted ground, in such great proportions as there I had not seene, of a light blacke sandy mould, the cliffes commonly red, white and yellowe colored sand, & vnder red & white clay, fish great plenty, & people aboundance, the most of their inhabitants, in view of ye neck of Land, where a better seat for a towne cannot be desired: at the end of forty miles this riuer inuironeth many low Hands, at each high water drowned for a mile, where it vniteth it selfe, at a place called Apokant the highest Towne inhabited.1 10. miles higher I discouered with the barge. in the mid way, a great tree hindred my passage which I cut in two: heere the riuer became narrower, 8. 9 or 10. foote at a high water, and 6. or 7. at a lowe: the streame exceeding swift, & the bottom hard channels the ground most part a low plaine, ...
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