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marshes, and many of them dry, that they may 

 more fitly be called meadows. The wood land 

 against them is, for the most part, pine, and in 

 Bome places as barren as ever we saw land, but in 

 other places good pasture ground. 



On Tuesday, E'ovember the 17th, we got aboard 

 our ship, riding against the mouth of Green's riv- 

 er, where our men were providing wood and fit- 

 ting the ship for the sea. In the interium, we 

 took a view of the country on both sides of the 

 river, there finding some good land but more bad, 

 and the best not comparable to that above. Fri- 

 day the 20th, was foul weather ; yet in the after- 

 noon we weighed, went down the river about two 

 leagues and came to an anchor against the mouth 

 of Hilton's river, and took a view of the land there 

 OH both sides, which appeared to us mucl;i like 

 that at Green's river. Monday the 23d, we went, 

 with our long boat w^ell victualed and manned, 

 up Hilton's river ; and when we came three 

 leagues, or thereabouts, up the same, we found 

 this and Green's river to come into one, and so 

 continued for tour or five leagues, which makes a 

 great island betwixt them. We proceeded still 

 up the river till they parted again, keeping up 

 Hilton's river on the larboard side, and followed 

 the said river five or six leagues farther, where 

 we found another large branch of Green's river to 

 come into Hilton's, which makes another great 

 island. On the star board side, going up, we pro- 

 ceeded still up the river some four leagues and re- 



