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Sound. For about three miles, I found the fhore covered 1778. 
with fmall illands, which are fo fituated as to form feveral A f nl '_. 
convenient harbours, having various depths of water, from 
thirty to feven fathoms, with a good bottom. Two leagues 
within the Sound, on this Weft fide, there runs in an arm 
in the direction of North North Weft; and two miles far¬ 
ther, is another nearly in the fame direction, with a pretty 
large ifland before it. I had no time to examine either of 
thefe arms; but have reafon to believe, that they do not 
extend far inland, as the water was no more than brackifh 
at their entrances. A mile above the fecond arm, I found 
the remains of a village. The logs or framings of the 
houfes were ftanding; but the boards that had compofed 
their fides and roofs did not exift. Before this village were 
fome large fifhing wears; but I faw nobody attending 
them. Thefe wears were compofed of pieces of wicker¬ 
work made of fmall rods, fome clofer than others, according 
to the fize of the fifli intended to be caught in them. Thefe 
pieces of wicker-work (fome of whofe fuperficies are, at 
leaft, twenty feet by twelve), are fixed up edgewife in fhal- 
low water, by ftrong poles or pickets, that ftand firm in the 
ground. Behind this ruined village is a plain of a few 
acres extent, covered with the largeft pine-trees that I ever 
faw. This was more remarkable, as the elevated ground, 
on moft other parts of this Weft fide of the Sound, was 
rather naked. 
From this place, I croffed over to the other, or Eaft fide of 
the Sound, palling an arm of it that runs in North North 
Eaft, to appearance not far. I now found, what I had be¬ 
fore conjectured, that the land, under which the fhips lay, 
was an ifland; and that there were many fmaller ones ly¬ 
ing fcattered in the Sound on the Weft fide of it. Oppofite 
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