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we weighed the anchor, and we found it had lain 

 in very tough mud with many large stones in it; 

 for the cable hung on them as it came in, and was 

 rubbed in several places, nor was the anchor 

 canted, notwithstanding the violence of the gale. 

 We then set the forestay-sail and ran into the 

 bight on the south side of my house, there came 

 to an anchor in nine fathoms good, clear, ground, 

 which is an excellent place for a ship to ride in. 

 I went on shore and was informed, that the tide 

 yesterday, flowed two feet higher than usual; that 

 it rose two inches high in the house; and that the 

 violence of the wind was so great, as to turn the 

 bottom up of a sealing-skiff, which lay on Rocky 

 Point. I never experienced so hard a gale before. 

 Sunday, October 1, 1775. We landed all the salt 

 and part of the provisions [at Hoop-pole-Cove]. 

 At noon taking Jack with me, I went up the East 

 River in a skiff, landed at the head of the tide, 

 and wall^ed by the side of it to the foot of the 

 second pond; we then ascended a high hill on 

 the south side, from whence we had an extensive 

 view of the country. We saw a lake lying on the 

 river, to the eastward of that hill, and several 

 small pools to the northward. On our return, we 

 observed a salmon in the second pond, and found 

 a gooseberry ^ bush on the bank of it, which is the 

 first I have either seen or heard of in this country. 

 From the top of Rodghill, I observed two other 

 good streams fall into the river, before it empties 

 into the tide way, and several large marshes by 



* Rihes oxyacanthoides. 



