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A VOYAGE TO 
1777. 
January, 
tions. I fhall only premife, that the tall ftraight foreft 
trees, which Mr. Anderfon defcribes in the following ac¬ 
count, are of a different fort from thofe which are found in 
the more Northern parts of this coaft. The wood is very 
long and clofe-grained; extremely tough; fit for fpars, 
oars, and many other ufes; and would, on occafion, make 
good mails (perhaps none better), if a method could be 
found to lighten it. 
u At the bottom of Adventure Bay is a beautiful fandy 
beach, which feems to be wholly formed by the particles 
wafhed by the fea from a very fine white land-ftone, that 
in many places hounds the fhore, and of which Fluted 
Cape, in the neighbourhood, from its appearance, feems 
to be compofed. This beach is about two miles long, and 
is excellently adapted for hauling a feine, which both fhips 
did repeatedly with fuccefs. Behind this, is a plain or flat, 
with a fait, or rather brackifh lake (running in length 
parallel with the beach), out of which. we caught, with 
angling rods, many whitifh bream, and fome fmall trout. 
The other parts of the country adjoining the bay are quite 
hilly; and both thofe and the flat are an entire foreft of 
very tall trees, rendered almoft impaflable by fhruhs, 
brakes of fern, and fallen trees; except on the fides of 
fome of the hills, where the trees are but thin, and a coarfe 
grafs is the only interruption. 
To the Northward of the hay there is low land, ftretching 
farther than the eye can reach, which is only covered with 
wood in certain fpots; but we had no opportunity to exa¬ 
mine in what refpedts it differed from the hilly country. 
The foil on the flat land is either fandy, or confifts of a 
yellowifh mould, and, in fome places, of a reddifh clay. 
The fame is found on the lower part of the hills; but 
farther 
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