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town harbor], which is a good harbour and pleasant bay, circled round, 
except in the entrance, which is about four miles over from land to 
land, compassed about to the very sea with oaks, pines, juniper, 
sassafras, and other sweet wood.....The same day, so soon as we 
could, we set ashore fifteen or sixteen men, well armed, with some to 
fetch wood, for we had none left, as also to see what the land was... . . 
They found it to be a small neck of land [Long Point]; on this side 
where we lay, is the bay, and the further side the sea; the ground or 
earth sand hills, much like the downs in Holland, but much better; 
the crust of the earth, a spit's depth, excellent black earth; all wooded 
with oaks, pines, sassafras, juniper, birch, holly, vines, some ash, 
walnut; the wood for the most part open and without underwood, fit 
either to go or ride in. At night our people returned, but found not 
any person, nor habitation; and laded their boat with juniper, which 
smelled very sweet and strong, and of which we burnt the most part 
of the time we lay there." 
On the 15th another party was set ashore and proceeded about ten 
miles. The next morning, in Truro, “we marched through boughs 
and bushes, and under hills and valleys, which tore our very armor 
in pieces... .. About ten o'clock we came into a deep valley, full of 
brush, wood-gaile and long grass... . . And as we went in another valley, 
we found a fine clear pond of fresh water, being about a musket shot 
broad, and twice aslong. There grew also many small vines, and fowl 
and deer haunted there. There grew much sassafras..... We went 
on further and found new stubble, of which they had gotten corn this 
year, and many walnut trees full of nuts, and great store of straw- 
berries, and some vines." Further on they came to some deserted 
Indian houses, in which they found “two or three baskets full of 
parched acorns....We found also a little silk grass, and a little 
tobacco seed, with some other seeds which we knew not. Without 
was sundry bundles of flags, and sedge, bulrushes, and other stuff to 
make mats." 
There are no further botanical notes until Plymouth harbor was 
reached, on Dec. 16. “This harbour is a bay greater than Cape Cod, 
‘compassed with a goodly land; and in the bay two fine islands, 
uninhabited, wherein are nothing but woods, oaks, pines, walnuts, 
beech, sassafras, vines and other trees which we know not..... 
Monday, the 18th day, we made a land, manned with the master of 
the ship and three or four of the sailors. We marched along the coast 
