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likelihood of avoiding them, when by the special Mercy of 

 Heaven there sprang up a brisk and fair Wind that drove us 

 back. We then made the Gai^e towards the North Point, and 

 at Noon the Captain put out his Boat to seek for a Place to 

 • enter. In the Evening we sail'd towards the Northeast Point, 

 and the Boat gave us a Signal that it had found out good 

 Anchorage : We were then on the Piock in eight Fathom 

 Water only, which oblig'd us to be always sounding. We 

 cast Anchor in nine Fathom, a sandy Mud at Bottom ; our 

 Ship was tow'd along by the Boat; We lay tliere till the 

 next Day, when we intended to look out for a better Place. 

 Accordingly, early in the Morning, the 30th of April, we 

 cast Anchor in nine Fathom Water, a good Bottom of Ouzy 

 Sand, and shelter'd from the East and South-East Winds, 

 which blow always in that Country. 



The Island afar off, and near at hand, appear'd to us very 

 lovely : The Captain, who had his Eeasons for not landing us 

 at Tristan or Mascaregna, desir'd nothing better than to 

 leave us at Uodrigo, and with that Design he highly extoll'd 

 the Beauty and Advantages of this Island; and indeed this 

 little new World seem'd full of Delights and Charms. 'Tis 

 true we did not see so many Birds flying about as at Tristan, 

 and our Road was not so perfum'd with the Odours of the 

 neighbouring Shoar as at Eden, from whence we had been 

 come about a Month. But we cou'd not thence conclude 

 there were no Birds in the New Island, nor no Flowers to 

 send up grateful Sweets. Besides, the Face of it ^vas ex- 

 treamly Fair. We cou'd hardly take our Eyes off from the 

 little Mountains, of which it almost entirely consists, they 

 are so richly spread with great and tall Trees. The Elvers 

 that we saw run from them w^ater'd Valleys, whose Fertility 

 we cou'd not doubt of ; and, after having run thro' a beautiful 

 Level, they fell into the Sea, even before our Eyes. Their 

 Banks were adorn'd with Forrests ; and some of us, at the 



