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raised to the mouth, tasted exceedingly sweet. This appears to 

 iave been Nantucket, where honey-dew is known to abound. 



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They proceeded on through a tract of shoal water, which cor-* 

 responds with the sound between Nantucket and Cape Cod, and 

 appear to have run across the mouth of Buzzard's Bay, and to 

 have ascended the Pocasset River as far as Mount Hope Bay, 

 which they took for a lake. Here they cast anchor, and, 

 " bringing their skin cots from the ship, proceeded to make 

 booths." They remained during the winter, finding plenty of 

 salmon in the river and lake. "The nature of the country was, 

 as they thought, so good, that cattle would not require house- 

 feeding in winter, for there came no frost, and little did the 

 grass wither there." Their statement that on the shortest day 

 the sun was above the horizon from half-past seven till half-past 



