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being at North and by East, wee drived to the wind- 

 wards halfe the ebbe, with the ships head to the East- 

 wards. And then when we cast her head to the 

 Westwards, we sounded, and had 22. fadome broken 

 shels, and gray sand ; this present day was very mistie, 



Frost in June, with frost on the shrowds as the mist fell. 



Friday in the morning at an East sunne, the mist 

 brake up a little, the winde being at North and by 

 West a stiffe gale, our shrowdes and roapes over 

 head being covered with frost, and likely to be a 

 storme : I thought it good to seeke an harborow, and 

 so plied roome with the Islands which are two leagues 

 to the Southwards of Cape Race, and within these 

 Islands (thankes bee to God) we found harborow for 

 us. It higheth at these Islands two fadome water : 



[I. 292.] it floweth in the harborow at this place at a South- 

 southeast moone ful sea : and a sea boord it floweth 

 at a Southsouthwest moone a full sea. The Russes call 



Tri Ostrove. this Island, Tri Ostrove. 



You may come in betweene the little Island and the 

 great Island, and keepe you in the mids of the Sound, 

 and if you borrowe on any side, let it bee on the 

 greatest Island, and you shall have at a low water, 

 foure fadome, and three fadome and a halfe, and three 

 fadome, untill that you be shot so farre in as the 

 narrowest, which is betweene the Northermost point of 

 the greatest Island, and the Southerne point of the 

 maine which is right against it, and then hale to the 

 Northwards with the crosse which standeth in the 

 maine, and you shall have at a lowe water 10. foote 

 water, and faire sand. And if you be disposed to goe 

 through the Sound to the Southwards, keepe the 

 Northwest shoare aboorde, for on the Island side after 

 you be shotte so farre in as the crosse, it is a shoale 

 of rockes halfe the sound over : which rockes do last 

 unto the Southerly part of the great Island, and rather 

 to the Southwards. And if you be constrained to seeke 

 a harbor for Northerly windes, when you come out of 



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