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^ xm ^' ceedingly good. This party, in the courfe of their ramble, 



" ' fell in with a large fpot of low fwampy ground, Htuated 



Augu'it. at a fmall diftance behind the brewery beach, on which 

 "" ^^ '^" grew a large quantity of the Indian tea. This difcovery 

 was a timely one ; for by this time the greatefl part of our 

 other tea was expended, and our newly-difcovered tea was 

 a mofi; excellent fubflitute. It grows on a low fmall flirub, 

 not more than twelve inches from the ground ; the leaf 

 about half an inch long, and tapers gradually to a point ; 

 the under-part covered with a light downy fubftance. 



In the forenoon I went in the whale-boat, accompanied 

 by Mr. Wilbye and one of the young Indians, to vifit 

 their relidence ; he undertaking to dlre<5l the way. We 

 rowed to the North Weft for about two miles, and then 

 came to what had the appearance of a point of land from 

 the fhip, but we found it to be an ifland, iituated at the 

 entrance of an arm of the Sound, vv'hich trends away 

 between North and North Eaft. The Indian informed me 

 that their place of abode was up that arm, therefore we 

 proceeded on, and found it to run in a zigzag diredion 

 between North and North Eaft, about five miles to the 

 head of it from the ifland in the entrance, and near feven 

 miles from the fhip. This arm appears to be navigable 

 for at leaft four miles up, for veftels of any fize, and there 

 are a number of fmall iflands covered with trees fcattered 

 in various parts of it. We arrived at the Indian's habita- 

 tion about noon, and found one fmall temporary houfe, 

 and the ruins of two others which had been much larger, 

 and appeared to have been made ufe of as winter habita- 

 tions ; the uprights or fupporters were ftill remaining, and 

 fome boards that were intended for a floor. On the beach 



was 



