>764- Indian upon the fouth Ihore, who kept waving to us as long
l-—-----1 as we were in fight : we faw alfo fome guanicoes upon the
hills, though Wood, in the account o f his voyage, fays there
were none upon that fhore, Aa foon as we had palled the
firft Narrow, we èntered a little fea, for we did not come
in fight of the entrance o f the fécond Narrow till we had
run two. leagues» The diftance from the firft to the fécond
Natrow is about eight leagues, and the courfe S. W. by W,
The land is very high on the north fide o f the fécond Narrow,
which continues for ahout five leagues, and we fteered
through it S. W. 4. W. with foundings from twenty to five
and twenty fathom : we went out o f the weft end. of this-
Narrow about noon, and fteered fouth about three leagues;
for Elizabeth's illand ; but the wind then coming right
a p ib ft us* we anchored in feven fathom. The ifla-nd bore
S, S, E. diftant about a mile, and Bartholomew’s. Mand bore
E. Sv E. Ip the, evening, fis. Indians upon the, Illand came
dqwn to tfee water fide, and continued, waving and hallooing
to uAjfor a long time ; but aa my people wanted reft, I was-
unwilling. to employ them in hoifting out a boat, and the
Indians feeing their labour fruitlefs, at length went away.
While wè were fleeting from Point Poflelhon to die firft
Narrow, the flood let to the fouthward, but as loon, as we
entered, the Narrow, it fet flrongly ov,er to the north Ihore ;
it flows here at the full, and change o f the moon about ten
o’clock. Between the firft and the fécond Narrow, the flood
fets to the S.. W. and the ebb to the N. E. : after the weft end
o f the fécond Narrow is: paft, the courfe, with a leading-
wind, is S, by E. three leagues* Between the illands, of
Elizabeth and; Saint Bartholomew^ the channel is about half
a mile over, and the water is deep : we found the flood fet
very flrongly to the fouthward, w-ith a great rippling, but
round the Illands the tides fet many different ways,
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In the morning of the 23d, we weighed with the wind at fjgj;
S. by W. and worked between Elizabeth and Bartholomew’s ___
illand : before the tide was fpent, we got over upon the north 1}’
fhore, and anchored in ten fathom. Saint George’s Illand
then bore N. E. by N. diftant three leagues j a point of land,
which I called P o r p o i s P o i n t , N. by W. diftant about five
m ile s ; and the fouthermoft land S. by E. diftant about two
miles. In the evening, we weighed and fteered S. by E.
about five miles along the nortli Ihore, at about one mile’s
diftance, with regular foundings, from feven to- thirteen
fathom, and every where good ground. At ten o’ clock at
night, we anchored in thirteen fathom; Sandy Point then
bearing S. by E. diftant four miles ; Porpois Point W. N. W.
three league s; and Saint George’s Illand N. E. four leagues-
A ll along this- lliore the flood fets to- the fouthward; at the
full and change o f the moon, it flows about eleven o’clock
and the water rifes about- fifteen feet, |
The: next morning,. I went out in my boat in fearch o f ||Ufey 4.
Frelh Water B a y ; I landed with my Second Lieutenant upon
Sandy Point, and having fent the boat along the Ihore, we
walked abreaft o f her. Upon the Point we found plenty of
wood, and very good water, and for four or five miles
the fhore was exceedingly pleafant. Over the Point there
is a fine level country, with a foil that, to all appearance, is
extremely rich ; for the ground was covered with flowers of
various kind's, that perfumed the air with their fragrance; and
among them there were berries, almoft innumerable, where
the blofloms had been fhed : we obferved that the grafs was •
very good, and -that it was intermixed with a great number of
peas in blolfom. Among this luxuriance of herbage we faw
many hundreds of birds feeding, which- from their form,
and the uncommon beanty of -their plumage, we called
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