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ward, a little inclining to the north for the fpace 

 of a hundred leagues, and terminates at Cape Ray 

 in 47 deg. Almoft half-way, is the great bay of 

 Placentia, one of the fined ports in all America. 

 Weft-fouth-wefl from this is a Hummock, which 

 is feen from far, andfervesto make it known. 1 his 

 is called the Red Hat^ from its appearing in this 

 form at a diftance, and from its being of a reddifti 

 colour. On the 23d at noon, we were abreaft of 

 it, and in the evening we failed along the iflands of 

 St. Peter, which lay on the (larboard fide, that is 

 to fay on our right-hand. 



Thefe are three iQands, the two firft of which 

 are exceeding high, and from the fide on which we 

 were, could be ieen nothing but mountains covered 

 with mofs. It is pretended that this mofs in fome 

 places covers very fine porphyry. On the fide to- 

 wards Newfoundland, there is fome arable land, 

 with an indifferent good port, where we formerly 

 had fome fettlements. The large ft and mofl wes- 

 tern of the three, which is more commonly called 

 Maguelon iQand, is not fo high as the two others, 

 and the land of it appears to be very level, it is 

 about three quarters of a league in length. On the 

 24th, at day-break, we had left it only five or fix 

 leagues behind us, but after midnight we had had 

 no wind. Towards five o'clock in the morning, 

 there arofe a light breeze at fouth-eafl. Whilft we 

 were waiting tdl it fhould grow ftrong enough to 

 fiil our fails, we diverted ourfelves with fifhing, and 

 caught a considerable quantity of cod. We fpent 

 two hours more than we ought to have done in this 

 diverfion, and we had very foon fufficient reafon, to 

 repent it. 



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