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The Tcwits are fmaller than the Englijlj^ 

 and have no long Toppins, but juft like a 

 young one that begins to fly. 



There ^r6 a gre^t number of wild Swans. 



Wild'geefe and Brent-geefe all Winter in^ 

 mighty Flocks, Wild-ducks innumerable, 

 Teal^ Wigeon^ Sheldrakes, Virginia-dida- 

 pers, the Black-diver, &c. 



In my return home for England^ May 1585. 

 off of the Banks o{ Newfound-land^ when we 

 were, according to account, a hundred 

 Leagues from the Shoar, we faw feveral pro- 

 digious floating Iflands of the Ice, no lefs to 

 our Woiider than Terror, for they were very 

 dangerous : I got the Mafter to fail one day 

 as nigh one of them as we fecurely durft^ 

 which we judged to be full a League in length, 

 and v;as higher above Water than the top 

 of our Main-maft ^ the Snow drove to and 

 fro upon it as upon a large Plane. There 

 was a great Flock of fmall Black-divers, that 

 were not much bigger than a Feldifire, came 

 to us a little before, but all of them then left 

 and betook themfelves to this Ifland of Ice. 

 They dived the coriftantly'fl:, and tbe longell 

 at a time of any Bird that I ever law. We 

 faw, as I remember , nigh Thirty of thefe 

 Iflands of Ice. Captain Rider being fome 

 fews days later in his PafTage, and bearing 

 more to the Nare^ told me, he faw many 

 more of thefe Iflands of Ice, and fome much 

 larger. 



There are in Virginia a great many Cormo- 

 rants ^ feveral forts of Gulls, and in about 

 the Bay many Bannets. Thus much for the 

 BirdSv , Tours^ 



