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There is no need to explain why lie also believed it to lie north of 

 the land, as no one and final answer can be given, although sev- 

 eral can be easily suggested; that water and land again lay to the 

 west is clearly stated in all three accounts. 



Afterward " they sailed into that sound which lay between the 

 island and the promontory which jutted northward from the land; 

 they steered in westward past the promontory. There was much 



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I'.KTWEEN THE StOXES. 



shallow water at ebb tide, and then their ship stood up and then 

 it was far to look to the sea from their ship." Across the water 

 which lies between Cape Cod and the mainland is Rocky Point, 

 a high and therefore noticeable promontory jutting northward 

 from the land. Past this one can only continue westering to the 

 north, and thence we must now look along the land to find the 

 plare where, in the words of the Flat Island Book, " a certain 

 river flowed out of a certain lake," having, as was said before. 



