A VOYAGE TO 
triangular leaves ; a fmall fort of grafs ; and fome water- 
crelfes, which grow about the tides of the rills; belides 
great abundance of andromeda. Within the woods, belides 
two forts of underwood fhrubs unknown to us, are molfes 
and ferns. Of the firft of which, are feven or eight dif¬ 
ferent forts ; of the laft, not above three or four; and the 
fpecies of both, are moftly fuch as are common to Europe 
and America. 
As the feafon of the year was unfavourable to our gain¬ 
ing much knowledge of the vegetable productions of this 
country, fo our own fituation while there, put it out of our 
power to learn much about its animals. For as the want 
of water made it necelfary that we fhould enter the Sound 
at firft, the unforefeen accidents which happened after¬ 
ward, though they lengthened our Hay, were rather unfa¬ 
vourable to our obtaining any knowledge of this kind. The 
emergency of the cafe required, that every perfon fhould be 
constantly employed in the necelfary bulinefs of the Ihips, 
which -was the capital objeCt; as the feafon was advancing 
very fall, and the fuccefs of the voyage depended upon 
their diligence and alacrity in expediting the various talks 
affigned to them. Hence it happened, that excurlions of 
every kind, either on the land, or by water, were never at¬ 
tempted. And as we lay in a cove on an illand, no other 
animals were ever feen alive in the woods there, than two 
or three racoons, martins, and fquirrels. Belides thefe, fome 
of our people who, one day, landed on the continent, near 
the South Eaft lide of the entrance of the Sound, obferved 
the prints of a bear’s feet near the Ihore. The account, 
therefore, that we can give of the quadrupeds, is taken from 
the Ikins which the natives brought to fell; and thefe were 
often fo mutilated with refpeCt to the diltinguilhing parts, 
fuch 
