1 6 Salt-pond efJ.M^yo. 
'^«.i 699. onthls Ifland of a confiderable heighth ; one 
pretty bluff, the other peeked at top. The 
reft of the Ifland is pretty level, and of a good 
heighth from the Sea. The Shore clear 
round hath fandy Bays, between the Rocky 
Points I fpake of ; and the whole Ifland is a 
very dry fort of Soil. 
On the Weft-flde of the Ifle where the 
Road for Ships is there is a large Sandy Bay, 
and a Sand-bank , of about 40 Paces wide 
within it, which runs along the Shore 2 or 5 
Miles ; within which there is a large Salma 
or Salt-pond, contained between the Sand- 
bank and the Hills beyond it. The whole 
Salifia is about 2 Miles in length, and_ half a 
Mile wide ; but above one half of it is com- 
monly dry. The North-end only of the Pond 
never wants Water, producing Salt from No~ 
‘vember till which is here the dry Seafon of 
the Year. The Water which yields this Salt 
works in from out of the Sea through a hole 
in the Sand-bank before mentioned , like a 
Sluce, and that only in Spring-tides ; when 
it fills the Pond more or lefs, according to the 
heighth of the Tides. If there is any Salt 
in the Ponds when the Flufih of Water comes 
in, it prefently diffolves : But then in two or 
three Days after it begins to Kern ; and fo 
continues Kerning till either all, or the great- 
eft part of the Salt-water is congeal’d or 
kern’d ; or till a frefh Supply of it comes in 
again from the Sea. This Water is known 
to come in only at that one Paffageon theN. 
