WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
Lieutenant King, the fuperintendant), was loft, with three 
feamen, in a boat that was fwamped by the furf, which on 
every part of the coaft runs high, and beats againft the 
fhore with great violence ; fo that I much fear, from the 
difficulty of accefs, and its fituation, it never will prove 
of any great confequence, although it promifed fome advan- 
tages y particularly in furnifhing us with pine trees, which 
grow here to a fize nearly equal to thofe of Norway. In 
the whole ifland there is not a harbour capable of admitting 
even fo fmall a veflel as the Supply, and the anchorage on 
every part of the coaft is equally bad. 
The ifland produces a kind of gladiolus luteus, or iris 
paluftris, of which, as may be feen by the fpecimens fent 
Mr. Wilfon, exceeding good hemp is to be made ; and 
which is to be procured in any quantity, the plants growing 
in great abundance throughout the whole ifland. The 
foregoing articles, were the ifland larger and more eafy of 
accefs, with even a tolerable harbour, might, in any other 
country, be of the firft confequence to a maritime nation. 
But from every information which I have gained from the 
officers and crew of the Supply, the procuring of this bene- 
ficial acquifition is at prefent fomewhat doubtful. The 
people 
