Un IRew 



cleared. In one field is a great hill, on 

 which we point to make a platform and 

 plant our ordnance, which will com- 

 mand all round about. . . . The 

 land for the crust of the earth is, a 

 spit's depth, excellent black mould, and 

 fat in some places : two or three great 

 oaks, but not very thick pines, walnuts, 

 beech, ash, birch, hazel, holly, asp, sassa- 

 fras in abundance, and vines every where, 

 cherry trees, plum trees, and many others 

 which we know not. Many kinds of herbs 

 we found here in winter, as strawberry 

 leaves innumerable, sorrel, yarrow, car- 

 vel, brooklime, liverwort, water cresses, 

 great store of leeks and onions, and an 

 excellent strong kind of flax and hemp. 

 Here is sand, gravel, and excellent clay, 

 no better in the world, excellent for pots, 

 and will wash like soap, and great store 

 of stone." l 



Elated with their success the party of 



explorers returned to the vessel, and 



reported the good news, "which did much 



1 Idem, p. 165. 



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