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Mountain coverM with Snow, lying farther up the 

 Country. 



#J*te V. About a League to the Eaft of thofe Hills appears Cape 

 $. Vincent, being a very low Land ] then a fecond little 

 Cape callM Cape S.James ; tho' I have Reafon to believe, 

 that Cape S. Vincent is much more to the North ; and that 

 the Cape to which they have given that Name, is Cape 

 S. James, grounding this my Opinion on very ancient 

 Spanifb Manufcript Charts, perhaps taken from the Difco- 

 veryof the Nodales. 



When bearing N. N. W. and North from thofe little 

 low Capes, as we drew near, we difcover'd Streight le 

 Maire (which they cover' d with Staien-land) opening by 

 little and little, till at length, being three Quarters of a 

 League Eaft from the firft of them, all the Opening ap- 

 pears. This Remark is neceffary, to make fure of the 

 Streight ; becaufe many Ships, and laftly, the Incarnation 

 and the Concord, thought to have gone thro' there, tho' 

 they were to the Eaft ward of Staten4and, and they only 

 faw it on the Weft- fide, being deceiv'd by the three Hills 

 like the Three Brothers, and Tome Creeks like thofe of 

 Ti'erra del Fuego. 



The Tide of No fooner were we got to the Eaftward of Cape S. Vin- 

 the Streight. cent, than we found a ftrong and rapid Tide, as it were in 

 a Torrent, which made us pitch fo violently, that the 

 Boltfprit-Topfail dipp'd in the Water; but having been 

 inform'd of the Courfe of the Tide, which is fix Hours, 

 or fix and a half, we had taken the Time that it might 

 : favour us, and ranged along the Coaft oiTiierra delFnego, 

 within a League and a Quarter of it at fartheft. We en- 

 ter'd fuccefsfully with the Flood, which runs rapidly to the 

 Southward, and divides itfelf into two Currents ; one of 

 which takes along the Streight, which is but fix or feven 

 • Leagues wide ; and the other fets along Staten4and to the 

 Eaftward. 



About the Middle of the Streight is Port Maurice, a little 

 Creek, about half a League wide, at the Bottom whereof, 



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