THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Punta 

 delgada, or 

 The slender 

 point. 



Cabezas 

 anegadas are 

 sunken heads 

 or rocks under 

 water. 



Comeaera de 

 Pescado. 



side, and you shall see the Sierras or mountaines of S. 

 Paul, which are two, and that on the North side is 

 higher then the other. 



Markes of Almeria. 



IF you should chance to fall or come upon the 

 plaines of Almeria, it is a lande full of many homocks, 

 some with tuftes of trees on them, and some bare with 

 white sand, and in 60. fathoms you shall have clay or 

 oaze, and in 30. fathom to the landward sand. And 

 from thence to Punta de hidalgo or Punta delgada 

 the coast lyeth Northeast and Southwest. 



Soundings of Villa rica. 



IF you fall with Villa Rica in 30. fathoms, you shall 

 finde clay or oaze, and in some places stones, and 

 neere the lande you shall have sand : and upon the 

 port of S. Juan de Ullua you shall have in some places 

 clay or oaze, and in some places herring bones, and 

 in other places mase and , and upon the rocks 



called Cabezas anegadas you shall have small blacke 

 sande at 17. fathom two leagues from land. And if 

 you see a coast that lieth Northeast and Southwest, 

 and another Northwest and Southeast, you shall be 

 upon S. Paul : and if you should be upon Cabezas 

 anegadas, you shall finde in 30. fathoms great sand & 

 blacke, and in 28. fathoms you shall have the sand 

 white like the shavings of free stone : and from S. 

 Paul to the barre of Vera Cruz it is clay or oaze, 

 and from thence to S. Juan de Ullua you have many 

 deeps, which at one sounding bring you clay, and at 

 another sand, and at another clay and mase together, 

 and herring bones: and in some 35. or 40. fathom you 

 shal finde rockie ground, and in some places sand, and 

 in some other places herring bones : and we call this 

 Comedera de pescado, or The foode of fishes. 



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