STEPHEN BURROUGH ad. 



1557- 

 the sea, hale in with the Southerly part of the great 

 Island, giving the Island a faire birth, and as you 

 shoote towards the maine, you shall finde roade for all 

 Northerly windes, in foure fadome, five, sixe and seven 

 fadome, at a lowe water. 



Also within this great Island (if neede bee) you may 

 have a good place to ground a ship in : the great 

 Island is almost a mile long and a quarter of a mile 

 over. 



This storme of Northerly winde lasted untill the 16. 16 

 of this moneth, and then the winde came Southerly, 

 but we could not get out for Ice. I went on shore Ice. 

 at the crosse, and tooke the latitude, which is 66. 

 degrees, 58. minutes, 30. seconds: the variation of the The variation. 

 Compasse 3. degrees and a halfe from the North to 

 the East. 



Thursday being faire weather, and the winde at 17 

 North we plied to the winde-wards with sailes and 

 oares : wee stopped the flood this day three leagues to 

 the Northwards of Cape Race, two miles from the shoare, 

 and had twentie fadome water, faire gray and blacke 

 sand, and broken shels. And when the slake came wee 18 

 wayed and made aboord to the shoare-wards, and had 

 within two cables length of the shoare, eighteene fadomes 

 faire gray and blacke sand : a man may finde roade 

 there for a North winde, and so to the Westwards. 



Two leagues to the Southward of Corpus Christi 

 poynt, you may have Landfang for a North and by 

 East winde, and from that to the Westwards in 23. 

 fadome almost a mile from shoare, and faire sand, and 

 amongst the sand little yong small limpets, or such 

 like as growe upon muscles : and within two cables 

 length and lesse of the shoare are eighteene fadomes, 

 and the sounding aforesaid, but the yong limpets 

 more plentifull. It was a full sea where we roade, 

 almost a mile from shoare, at a South and by West 

 moone : two leagues to the Southwards of Corpus 

 Christi point is the uttermost land, which land and 



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