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part of the Pond ; where alfo it is deepeft. ^«.i<599. 
It was at a Spring of the New Moon when 
I was there ; and I was told that it comes 
in at no other time but at the New Moon 
Spring-tides : but why that fhould be I 
can’t guefs. They who come hither to 
lade Salt rake it up as it Kerns, and lay it 
in heaps on the dry Land, before the Wa> 
ter breaks in anew : And this is obfervable 
of this Salt-Pond, that the Salt kerns only 
in the Dry Seafon , contrary to the Salt- 
Ponds in the W esi-Tndies^ particularly thofe 
of the Illand Sdt -Tortuga^ which I have 
formerly mentioned [Vol. I, p. 56.] for 
they never Kern there till the Rains come 
in about April ; and continue to do fo in 
May, July, &c. while the Wet Sea- 
fon lafts ; and no? without fome good 
Shower of Rain firfl; : But the Reafon al- 
fo of this Difference between the Salt- 
Ponds of Mayo, and thofe of the Wesf- 
Ifjdies, why thefe fhould Kern in the Wet 
Seafon, and the former in the Dry Seafon, 
I fhall leave to Philofophers. 
Our Nation drive here a great Trade for 
Salt, and have commonly a Man of War 
here for the Guard of our Ships and Barks 
that come to take it in ; of \vhich I have 
been inform’d that in fome Years there 
haVe not been lefs than 100 in a Year. It 
cofts nothing but Men’s Labour to rake it 
together, and wheel it out of the Pond, ^ 
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