48 RIO TO TERRA DEL FUEGO CHAP. JIT 
World, p. 60), and A. frustrum, Ulva intestinalis, and Corallina 
officinalis. 
14th. Staten Land is much more craggy than Terra del 
Fuego, though the view of it in Lord Anson’s voyage is 
exaggerated. The Captain stood into a bay just within 
Cape St. Vincent [Staten Island]; and while the ship stood 
off and on, Dr. Solander and I went ashore. I found about 
a hundred plants, though we were not ashore above four hours. 
Of these I may say every one was new, and entirely different 
from what either of us had before seen. 
The country about this bay is, in general, flat. Here is, 
however, good wood, water, and great quantities of fowl. In 
the cod of the bay is a flat covered with grass, where much 
hay might be made. The bay itself is bad, affording but 
little shelter for shipping, and in many parts of it the bottom 
is rocky and foul. This, however, may be always known in 
these countries by the beds of Fucus giganteus, which con- 
stantly grow upon the rock, and are not seen upon sand or 
ooze. These weeds grow to an immense length. We 
sounded upon them, and found fourteen fathoms of water. 
As they seem to make a very acute angle with the bottom 
in their situation in the water, it is difficult to guess how 
long they may be, but probably they are not less than half 
as long again as the depth of the water, which makes their 
length 126 feet; a wonderful length for a stalk not thicker 
than a man’s thumb. 
Among other things the bay affords, there is plenty of 
Winter’s bark,’ easily known by its broad leaf, like a laurel, 
of a light green colour, bluish underneath. The bark 
is easily stripped off with a bone or stick, as oaks are 
barked in England. Its virtues are so well known that of 
them I shall say little, except that it may be used as a 
spice even in culinary matters, and is found to be very 
wholesome. Here is also plenty of wild celery (Apiwm 
antiscorbuticum)* and scurvy grass (Cardamine antiscor- 
1 Drimys Winteri, Forst. 
? Apiwm prostratum, Thou. A variety of the European celery, and as 
wholesome. 
