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lesse in comp,asse, shewing above the sea, 30. or 40. 

 fathoms, and as we supposed fast on ground, where with 

 our lead we could scarce sound the bottom for depth. 



" Here in place of odoriferous and fragrant smels of 

 sweete gums, and pleasant notes of musicall birdes, 

 which other Countreys in more temperate Zones do 

 yeeld, wee tasted the most boisterous Boreal blasts mixt 

 with snow and haile, in the moneths of lune and luly, 

 nothing inferior to our vntemperate winter ; a sudden 

 alteration, and especially in a place of Parallele, where 

 the Pole is not eleuate aboue 6r. degrees ; at which 

 height other Countreys more to the North, yea vnto 70. 

 degrees, shew theraselues more temperate than this doth. 

 All along this coast yce lieth, as a continuall bulwarke, 

 and so defendeth the Country, that those that would 

 land there, incur great danger. Our Generall 3. days 

 together attempted with the ship boate to haue gone on 

 shoare, which for that without great danger he could 

 not accomplish, he deferred it vntil a more convenient 

 time. All along the coast lie very high mountains cou- 

 ered with snow, except in such places,where through the 

 steepenes of the mountains of force it must needs fall. 

 Foure days coasting along this land, we found no signe 

 of habitation. Little birds, which we judged to have 

 lost the shoare, by reason of thicke fogges which that 

 Country is much subiect vnto, came flying into our ships, 

 which causeth us tO suppose, that the Country is both 

 more tollerable, and also habitable within, than the out- 

 ward shoare maketh shew or signification. 



" From hence we departed the eight of luly ; on the 

 16. of the same, we came with the making of land, 

 which land our Generall the yeere before had named the 



