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After the granting of the Patent aforefaid of 15 Car. t. Sir David IQrk's greai 

 Pains there, and conitant Endeavours, were beyond expectation blefsM with a con- 

 tinuance and prefcrvation of Trade in that Place - in the carrying on of which, he 

 had always a fpecial regard to the real Advantage of this Kingdom, and the parti- 

 cular Service of His Majefty. 



Before this Mland, right over againft Caft%xy, at the diftanceof twenty four ]^™*T 

 Leagues or more, there lieth an huge Bank or Ridge of Land, extending it felf iri *"•***- 

 length out of the Sea, above a hundred Leagues, but in breadth not above four or 

 five and twenty, when it is broadeft, and in other parts much lefs, (harpning to- 

 wards each end into a Conus, or narrow Point. It is accounted one of the Wonders 

 of the Sea, which round about, at fome diftance, is very deep, and hardly to be 

 founded, efpecially betwixt the Sank (for fo they commonly call it) and Cape %ay, 

 but drawing nearer, it grows by degrees more and more fliallow, infomuch that 

 nigh the Land there is not much more Water than is neccflary for the Ships to Ride 

 in. It runneth out in length, aswasfaid, from North to South, from forty one 

 Degrees of Latitude to fifty two ; and round about it there lie fcatter'd a multitude 

 of letter Iflands, which Sir Seb'ajl'wi Qabot, when he firft difcover'd the Place, call'd 

 by one common Name Los <Baccaloos, or The ljlands ofCod-fff>, from the great quail- The *««*•#/ 

 tity of that fort of Fifli he there found ; which was fuch, that they hindred the paf- 

 iage of his Ships, and lay in fuch multitudes upon the Coafts, that the very Bears 

 would come and catch them in their Claws, and draw them to Land. 



IN the Gulf of St. Laurence, towards the Mouth of the River Canada, is another J^Jf° f 

 lefs coafijkrable Ifland, faid to have been firft difcover'd by Quartier, and by 

 him cdl'&m 1/land of Jffumftion ; by John Alfhonfo, The Ifland of Afcenfion . by the 

 Natives, Tfytijtcotec : It extends it felf from the forty eighth to the fiftieth Degree, 

 between the South-Eaft and North.Weft. 



Quartier makes mention of a ftrange kinde of Fifh, found in the River of Qanada, 

 like unto a Sea-Hog, but having the Head of a Hare, it is call'd by the Natives 



Adbothuys- 



Not far from this is a little Ifland, call'd by the French, Ifle de Sable, or Tin Sandy 

 Ifland; and another on the Weft of Terra NoVa, call'd Ifle de Bretons, or The Ifland 

 of St. ' Laurence, befides feveral little fcatter'd Iflands in the Gulf of St. Laurence, as 

 Menego, and The Three ljlands of Birds - in which are found a kind of amphibious 

 Animal, call'd by the French, Cualrus, and by the %ufians, Morfl j fomewhat like a 

 Sea-Calf, but more monftrous. 











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CHAP. XIL 

 The Bermudas, or Summer-Bands, 



THe Bermudas, or Summer-Jjlands (probably fo term'd as to the firft Appellati. JjJ 

 on from certain black Hogs, by the Spaniards call'd Bermudas, which from a J ' 

 Ship bound with them to fome other parts of the Weft-Indies ,ztti caft away 

 upon that Coaft, fwam afhore, and there increafed • or, as others fay, from John 

 Bermudes, a Spaniard, who is faid to have been the firft Difcoverer . or, as to the 

 fecond, from one George Summers, an Eng/i/fc-man, who there fuffer'd fhipwrack) 

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