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within the Sound, on this Weft fide, there runs in an arm '77.s. 



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in the direction of North North Weft ; and two miles far- 

 ther, is another nearly in the fame diredlion, with a pretty- 

 large ifland before it. I had no time to examine either 

 of thefe arms ; but have reafon to believe, that they do not 

 extend far inland, as the water was no more than brackiOi 

 at their entrances. A mile above the fecond arm, I found 

 the remains of a village. The logs or framings of the houfes 

 were ftanding ; but the boards that had compofed their fides 

 and roofs did not exift. Before this village were feme 

 large fifliing wears; but I faw nobody attending them. 

 Thefe wears were compofed of pieces of wicker-work made 

 of fmall rods, fome clofer than others, according to the 

 fize of the fifli intended to be caught in them. Thele pieces 

 of wicker-work (fome of v/hoi^e/u/ier/icies arc, at leaft, twenty 

 feet by twelve), are fixed up cdgewife in fliallow water, by 

 ftrong poles or pickets, that ftand firm in the ground. Be- 

 hind this ruined village is a plain of a few acres extent, 

 covered with the largeft pine-trees that I ever faw. This 

 was more remarkable, as the elevated ground, on moft 

 other parts of this Weft fide of the Sound, was rather naked. 



From this place, I crolTed over to the other, or Eaft fide of 

 the Soimd, pafling an arm of it that runs in North North 

 Eaft, to appearance not far. I now found, what I had be- 

 fore conjecftured, that the land, under which the fliips lay, 

 was an ifland ; and that there were many fmaller ones lying 

 fcattercd in the Sound on the Weft fide of it. Oppofite the 

 North end of our large ifland, upon the main land, I ob- 

 ferved a village, and there I landed. The inhabitants of it 

 were not fo polite as thofe of the other 1 had juft vifited. But 

 this cold reception fcemed, in a great mcafnre, if not en- 

 tirely, owing to one furly Chief, who would not let me 



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