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every Year. The Soil is rich^ the Air good 

 and temperate, the Water is fweet^ and e- 

 Very thing contributes to make it healthful 

 and convenient. The Produft of this Place, 

 I mean in the Harbour and Creeks hereabout^, 

 is Turtle, Manatee^ and, a vafl variety of 

 very good finall Fi(h^ from the bignefs of a 

 Salmon to that of a Perch. The Land af- 

 fords Monkeys of different forts, Wild-Deer, 

 Indian Rabbit, Wild Hog, Parrots of ma- 

 ny kinds, Parakites, Macaws, Pelicans, and 

 a hundred more Birds we have got no name 

 to. There are moreover Land-Crabs, , Soulf 

 diers, Land-Turtle, Lizards, Guanha's,C6Gk'* 

 Lizards, and Scorpions : I had aimoft forgot 

 Partridges^ Pheafants, and a kind of Turkey. 

 All the Birds in this Country are beautiful, 

 but none of them that I could obferve have 

 any Notes. We have a Monkey aboard that 

 chirms lik^ ,a .|^ark,-it will never be bigger 

 than a Rat* This Place affords legions of 

 monftrous Plants, enough to confound all the 

 Methods of Botany ever hitherto thought 

 upon. However, I found a Ihift to make 

 fome Specimens, and that is all I can do. I 

 fay fome Specimens, becaufe if I ihould ga- 

 ther all, 'twould be enough to load the St. 

 Andrew^ for fome of their Leaves exceed 

 three Ells in length, and are very broad i 

 befides thefeMonfters, reducible to no Tribe, 

 there are here a great many of the European 

 kindred, (but ftill fomethijig odd about them) 

 as Lingua Cervina of different kinds, Blix of 

 different kinds, Polypodium^ feveral of the 

 Tlanta Papilonacecc^ Mujci^ Fungi ^ Convohuli-^ 



and a great many more I cafluot now remeni- 



