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Peninfula ^ for no Guns from the other fide of the 
Harbour can touch it, and no Ship carrying Guns dare 
enter for the Breaft-work at the' Point. The other fide 
of the Peninfula is either a Precipice, or defended a- 
gainft Ships by Shoals and Breaches, fo that there re- 
mains only the narrow neck that 'is not naturally for- 
tify 'd 5 and if 30 leagues of a Wildernefs will not do 
that, it may be artificially fortified 20 ways. In (hort, 
it may be made impregnable, and there is Rounds e- 
nough within it,if it wereallcultivated,to afford 10000 
Hogfheads of Sugar every year. The Soil is rich, the 
Air good and temperate, the Water is fweet, and every 
thing contributes to make it healthful ahd convenient. 
The Produft of this place, I mean in the Harbour and 
Creeks hereabouts, is Turtle, Manatee, and a vaft va- 
riety of very good fmall Fifti, from the bignefs of a 
Salmon fo that of a Perch. The Land affords Mon- 
keys of different forts, Wild Deer, Indian Rabbit, 
Wild Hog, Parrots of many kinds, Parakites, Macaws, 
Pelicans, and a hundred, more Birds we have got no 
name to. There are moreover Land^Crabs, Souldiers, 
Land-Turtle, Lizards, Guanha*s, Cock- Lizards and 
Scorpions : I had almofl: forgot Partridges, Phea- 
fants, and a kind oi Turkey. All the Birds in this 
Country are beautiful , but none of them that I could 
obferve have any Notes. We have a Monkey aboard 
that chirms like a Lark, it will never be bigger than a 
Rat. This place affords legions of monftrous Plants, 
enough to confound all the methods of Botany tver 
hitherto thought upon. However, I found a fliitt to 
make fome fpecimens, and that is all I can do. I fay 
fome fpecimens, becaufe if I fhould gather all, 'twould 
be enough to load the St Andrew^ for fome of their 
Leaves exceed three Ells in length, and are very broad ^ 
befides thefe Monfters, reduceable to no Tribe,there are 
here a great many of the jE//r^?/?e^» kindred, (but ftill 
fome* 
