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Mr. CLAYTON’S Account 
another high, barren, rocky iiland, named Kepple’s Iiland, 
and fome other lefler iilands to the N.E. and E allward, 
and was intirely land-locked, or inclofed by the land, on 
every point: it was very fpacious; the bottom was 
muddy and good holding ground. From the hills 
through the bogs drained leveral runs of water, and as 
the landing-places were good, and a natural fmall cove 
for boats to lye in l'afety on the North-fide of Saunders’ 
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Iiland fheltered from the S.W. winds, it induced Captain 
macbride to begin the fettlement on it. 
The larger iilands are overfpread with a fhort, tufty, 
round grafs ; a lhrub with a fmell like rofemary ; a Ihrub 
of the myrtle kind, which in March and April bloffoms (*) ; 
a white flower, of a faint violet fmell; a fmall annual 
plant, of the wormwood kind. Near the fhore, where- 
ever there is a fandy foil, a fpecies of grafs grows, called 
Penguin grafs, from the birds of that fpecies making 
their nefts, and burrowing under ground like rabbits in 
holes. This grafs grows four or five feet high; the blades 
are broad and coarfe like rallies ; the roots, when roafted, 
eat like almonds.. Ground-forrel every where abounds 
in the greateft* plenty ; is extremely tart, and a moll 
excellent antilcorbutic ; the flower it produces is exadlly 
like the wild role which grows in the hedges in England. 
Celery, pepper-grafs, and fcurvy-grafs, alfo abounds upon 
every iiland. Maidenhair (improperly fo called) is plenty ; 
the berries are ripe in February and March, and very plea- 
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( a ) Lieutenant CLAYTON hath two or three of thefe fhrubs in his garden at 
Pcckham. 
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