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This great heat and moifture together; is certainly the occafion 
| that the trees and plants grow to fuch vaft height , and Jargenefs as 
they are. . 
Hew ‘wate-| - There isnothing inthis Iland. fo much wanting, as Springs and Ri- 
vers of water 3 there being but very few, attd thofe very {mall and in- 
'confiderable, .1know but only one River, and that may rather be 
|term’da Lake,than a RiversThe Springs that run into tt,are never able 
/to fillit,they are fo {mall outfall to Sea it hasnone3 but at ‘pring tides, 
i the Sea comes in..and fills.it';. and at: Nepe tides, it: cannot run out 
again, theSea banks being higher thanit. \ But fome of it iffues out 
through the Sands, and leaves behind. it a mixt. water, of frefh and 
falt : at the time the tide comes in, it brings with it fome fifhes,which 
are content to remain.there; being better pleafed to live in this mixt 
water, than the Salt. Colonel Humphrey Walrond , whoisowner of 
the land of both fides, and therefore ofit 3 has toldme , that he has 
"| taken fithes there, as big.as Salmons, which have becn overgrown 
with fat, as you have feen Porpifces; but extreamly fweee and 
But it has not been often, that fuch-fh, or any other, have been 
roots,. oe ? oe | 
So that no'Net can be drawn,nor any Hook laid ; forthey will wind 
the lines about the roots,and fo get away 5 or the lines break in pulling 
up, being faftned to the roots... 4» « . ee 
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. This RiverorLakexeachesnot within the Land abovetwelve {core 
yards, or.2. flight fhot at molt; and therelis no part of it fo broad, but 
you may cafta Coyteoverit.. } 
| _ The {pring tdesthere, feldom rife above four or five foot upright: 
fters, but wanting the great clawsafore:, which arethe {weeteft and 
pared to them. 
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| But:the Planters are pleafed tofay, that the Sun with his virtual heat, 
draws up all noifome vapours, and fo the waters become rarified,and 
Dame BP miaahence we fetcht daily, asmuchas ferved us, both for 
|, In thele ponds, £ have never {een any finall fith, fry or any thing. that 
paves Or MOVes In it, except fone flies that, fall into i3 bit the wa- 
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ther¢ come fromthe fea into thefe {mall bibling rivolets, little Lob-| 
find. anypbeaks to the rocky part, it gets between thofe clifts, and finks | 
ain, But it wasa great fatisfaction to me,that a little Rivulet was'| 
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_ |takenin that place, by reafonthe wholeLakeis filled with trees and | 
| fubetbet ih, sac have feen; Chichefter Lobiters are not to be com-| 
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