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it is called the Ganet, but in Latin, Larus cinerus major; it is 

 about as big as a goose but black on the end of the wings. This 

 bird gives always hope that land will soon be visible as it is 

 never to be seen far out at sea. 



April 20. When it was Easter Sunday we saw land for the 

 first time, namely Korth Carolina, that is a wooded land and 

 sends out a sweet smell from the rare trees growing there. The 

 whole woody seaside of North Carolina is uninhabited and un- 

 cultivated. 



April 21. Saw Smith Island on the right hand side of the 

 entrance to Virginia, not far from Cape Charles, which is the 

 furthermost point on the mainland on that side of the bay. At 

 12 o'clock we did cast anchor for the first time. 



After the midday meal at 2 o'clock we weighed anchor, part- 

 ing from the convoys and under a good breeze went from Cape 

 Henry and on up Chesapeake river, Plan Kitanck river, Rap- 

 patanock river west of us, but eastward Northampton and 

 Arammaco land up to the Tanger Islands. 



April 22. Some birds came to us flying out of the woods, by 

 the Englishmen called Wren. Of those we caught one that per- 

 mitted itself to be taken with the hands. It is a small, pretty 

 and docile little bird, big as a siskin, with small innocent eyes; 

 the breast is yellow but the back dark brown. The same day 

 we sailed with a fair wind up the bay passing Potovinackie 

 river, leaving Virginia and came farther and farther up toward 

 Maryland, past Potuxen river on the left, but on the right hand 

 side we had Dorchester land up to Heringe Bay where we 

 anchored in the night. The country is nothing but a woodland 

 everywhere and all over full of tobacco plantations. 



April 23. While we were at anchor here I went ashore with 

 the Captain, together with my brother, the portrait painter, Mr. 

 Gustavus Hesselius, and sat there our feet in the name of Jesus 

 for the first time on American soil. We had not been ashore 

 before since we went aboard at Graveland in England on the 

 twelfth of last February. We came thus up into a charming 

 land and walked about one English mile from the water and 

 saw with wonderment such riches in that country which are 

 only sparingly or not at all to be found in our Northern 

 countries. 



