44 Mr. WAFERS Defer iption f 

 tli is long Channel, on the infide of fome or 

 other of thofe little Keys or Iilands, be the 

 Winds how they will, you never fail of a 

 good Place for any number of Ships to ride 

 at} fo that this was the greateft Rendezvous 

 of the Privateers on this Coaft • but chief- 

 g y W ' s ly Id Sound's Key, or Springer 's Key, efpe- 

 springer's cially, if they ftay'd any time here 5 as well 

 Ke y- becaufe thefe two Iilands afford a good 

 Shelter for Careening, as becaufe they yield 

 Wells of frefh Water upon digging, whicft 

 few of the reft do. The Samballoes are 

 generally low, flat, fandy Iilands, cover'd 

 Trees in with variety of Trees 5 [efpecially with 

 take'""' Mammees, Sapadilloes, and Manchineel, &c. 

 a " oes ' belide the Sheli-fifti, and other Refrefhments 

 they afford the Privateers.] The outermoft 

 Keys towards the main Sea, are Rocky on 

 that fide (and are called the Riffe Keys) 5 

 their oppolite fides are Sandy, as the inner- 

 moft Keys or Iilands are. And there is a 

 jRidge alfo of Rocks lying off at Sea on the 

 out-fide, which appear above Water at fome 

 half a Mile diftance, and extend in length as 

 far as Ld Sound's Key, if not farther, and e- 

 ven the Sea between, and the Shore of the 

 Sdmballoes it felf on that fide, is all rocky, 

 channel The long Channel between the Sdmbdloes 

 fambakes anc * ^ Ifthtnus is of "two, three and four 

 am Miles breadth ^ and the Shore of the Ifih- 

 tnus is partly Sandy Bays, and partly Man- 

 grove Land, quite to Point Sdnldllas. The 

 Mountains are much at the fame diftance of 



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