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The Extent. 
‘The Length 
of dayes. 
| times driven aground. For, the Leeward part of the I{land being rather 
A True and Exaté Hiffory 
travagant carriage, made hitm infamous in the Ifland; and his Planta 
tion ftanding near this Bay, it wascalled by hisname. The othertwo 
are to the Welt of Carlifle Bay 3 and the firft is called Adackfields Bay, the 
other Spikes Bay; but neither of thefe three are environ’d with Land, 
asCarlifle Bayis: but being to the Leeward of the Ifland, and good 
Anchorage, they feldom arein danger 5 unlefsin the time of Turnado, 
when the wind. turns about to the Souths and then, if they be not! 
well moor’d, they are fubject to fall foul on one another, and fome~ 
fhelvy than rocky, they feldom ornever are caft away. | 
The length and: breadth of this Ifland, I muft deliver youonly upon 
truft; for, [could not go my felfabout it, being full of other bufinefs 5 
but Ehad fome {peech with the antienteft, and moft knowing Sur-! 
veyer there , one Captain Swaz, whotold me, that he once took an 
exact plot ofthe whole Ifland, but it was commanded out of his hands 
by the then Governour, Sit Henry Hunks, whocarrieditinto England 5 
fince which time, neither himfelf, norany other, to his knowledge , 
had taken any 3 nor did he believe, there was.any extant.I defired him 
yet that he wouldrub up hismemory, and take a little pains in the: 
furvey of his Papers, to try what could be found out there,that might 
give me fome light in the extent of the Iland, which he promifed to 
dos and within a while after, toldme , that he had found by fome 
| breadth, it was very uncertain, by r 
| (ome places, and natrow in othets,. I defired then to know , how 
| wasaflured, wastwenty eight miles, . Out of thefe uncertain grounds, 
the eveneft way Icango, is, upon a Aedium, between twelve and 
Papers, that lay {cattered in his Study, the length of it ; but,for the 
eafon-of the nooks and corners 
that reach’d out into-the Sea, fo that it muft of neceflity be broad in 
many. miles the broadeft,and how few the narroweft parts might be.He 
told mie, that he guefs'd the broadeft place could not beaboye feven- | 
teen miles, nor thenarroweft under twelve ; and that the length, he} 
it.was.a hard matter, toconclude upon any certainties 5 arid therefore | 
| Degrces from us, we findad ifference 5 forthen, the day isfomewhat 
feventeen 5 and, I will beas modeft as I. can in my computation 5 and 
take but 14. which is lefsthan the Afedium, and multiply 14. which 
isfuppofed to be the-breadth,/28. which is aflured to be the length, 
and they make 292 fquare miles in the *Mlands«..Beyond: thiss my: en- 
quiries could not reach, and therefore was compell'd to make my efti- | 
mate upon this-bare Suppefition. . But, for the form of the superficies | 
of the diland, I am utterly ignorant; and for the Upright, I ‘have | 
given it you in my firft view of the Iland, that it rifes higheft in the 
mi B,. + 3 : ' 
-. When theSunisinthe Zquinodial, or within 10 Degrees of either 
fide, we find little change in the dayes length; for at fix and fix the Sun 
rifes and {ets : but when he is near the Tropick of Capricorz,and is 37 
thotter, and we perccive that fhortning, to begin about the end of 0gfa- 
ber.5. the Crepujculum being then not much longer than at other times, | 
whichis not half thelength,as ‘tis withus inEzgland.. SS 
At the time of new Afoon, we find both her Corners equally high, 
when the Sunisnear us 3 but when itis atthe diftance of 27 Degrees} 
to the Southward,. we find fome difference 3. for then it hangs not fo} 
We. arein. 
equal, but one end ishigher than the other, by reafon of the pofition } 
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