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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. connects this peninfula with the continent, is full of narrow 
Septembei. cree k s . ar)! ^ abounds with ponds of water, fome of which 
were already frozen over. There were a great many geefe 
and buftards; hut fo fhy, that it was not poffible to get 
within mulket-fhot of them. We alfo met with fome 
fnipes; and on the high ground were partridges of two 
forts. Where there was any wood, mufquitoes were in 
plenty. Some of the officers, who travelled farther than I 
did, met with a few of the natives of both fexes, who treated 
them with civility. 
It appeared to me, that this peninfula muft have been 
an ifland in remote times ; for there were marks of the fea 
having flowed over the ifthmus. And, even now, it ap¬ 
peared to he kept out by a bank of fand, ftones, and wood 
thrown up by the waves. By this bank it was evident, that 
the land was here encroaching upon the fea, and it was eafy 
to trace its gradual formation. 
About feven in the evening, Mr. King returned from his 
expedition ; and reported, that he proceeded with the boats 
about three or four leagues farther than the fliips had been 
able to go ; that he then landed on the Weft tide; that, 
from the heights, he could fee the two coafts join, and the 
inlet to terminate in a fmall river or creek, before which 
were hanks of fand or mud; and every where flioal water. 
The land too, was low and fwampy for fome diftance to 
the Northward; then it fwelled into hills and the com¬ 
plete jundtion of thofe, on each ftde of the inlet, was eafily 
traced. 
From the elevated fpot on which Mr. King furveyed the 
Bound, he could diftinguiffi many extenftve vallies, with ri¬ 
vers running through them, well wooded, and bounded by 
hills of a gentle afcent and moderate height. One of thefe 
rivers 
