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contents h’mfslf w’th viewing it at a diftance, Ctice the 
lots of a Bii-lc of this Country, which going too near, 
took F;re and was burnt. 
In a word, our New Ifland grows every Day more 
Curious, more Dreadful, and lefs AccefTible : And is 
fo far from ceafmg to increafe, at tile Approach of 
■Winter, as fonie Pretenders to Philofophy would per- 
fwadeus, that we fee it continually increafing' on the 
South Weft fide ; where Nature feems as if Hie la- 
bour’d to make a large Fort, capable of holding all 
manner of Ships, whicli may one Day render 
rim not fo pradicabie as heretofore. * . 
This, my Lord, is in fubftance what I thought moft 
remarkable, in relation to this New Illand, from the 
firft beginning of it, to this eotli of November, 'I leave 
our Philofophers and Curious* Men, to reafonon itas 
they lhall think fit 3 and our Geometricians to con- 
demn me for faying nothing of its Demebfions. I 
had rathet be blamed by them, than expofe my felf 
to a juft Cenfure, in fpeaking blindly of what I know 
V nothing of/and which it^ is, as yet, impolTible to be 
truly informed in. But if I may be permitted to give" 
,,my Judgment, barely from Appearance, and theCo'm- 
mon Opinion of People here, 1 think I fhould not ex- 
ceed the Truth, if I affirm this New Shoal to be at 
prefent at leaf!: three Miles in Circumference, and 
more than from thirty five to forty Foot high. I hope 
in time, as this Ifhnd becomes eafier of Accefs, we 
fliill then find means to fpeak more particularly of it, 
and of giving your Excellency a more faithful and ex- 
act Relation. 
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