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that this was fome (hort cut, which was 

 to bring us forward in our voyage ; but 

 we had reafon to think afterwards, that 

 the greater probability there was of his 

 getting the barge, which was the wages 

 of his undertaking, fafe to his fettlement 

 by this, rather than another courfe, was 

 his motive for preferring it to the way wc 

 took afterwards, where there was a car- 

 rying place of confiderable length, over 

 which it would have been impoflible to 

 have carried our boat. 



The country hereabouts wears the 

 moft uncouth, defolate, and rugged af- 

 peft imaginable ; it is fo circumftanced 

 as to difcourage the moft fanguine ad- 

 venturers from attempts to fettle it : were 

 it for no other reafon than the conftant 

 heavy rains, or rather torrents, which 

 pour down here, and the vaft fea and furf 

 which the prevailing wefterly winds im- 

 pel upon this coaft, it muft be rendered 

 inhofpitable. All entrance into the 



woods 



