A»guft. This mark is the more neceffary, as there is a fmall cove
’ ■ ' akout a league to the Eaftward, with a fandy beach in the
bottom of it, a valley and cocoa-nut trees behind, which
Grangers may miftake for Port Praya, as we ourfelves did.
The two points which form the entrance of Port Praya bay,
are rather low, and in the direction of W. S. W. and E. N. E.
half a league from each other. Clofe to the Weft point are
funken rocks, on which the fea continually breaks. The
bay lies in, IT. W. near half a league; and the depth of water
is from fourteen to four fathoms. Large fliips ought not to
anchor in lefs than eight, in which depth the South end of
the Green Ifland (a fmall ifland lying under the Weft Ihore)
will bear Weft. You water at a well that is behind the
beach at the head of the bay. The water is tolerable, but
fcarce ; and bad getting off, on account of a great furf on
the beach. The refrelhments to be got here, are bullocks,
hogs, goats, fheep, poultry, and fruits. The goats are of
the Antelope kind, fo extraordinarily lean, that hardly any
thing can equal them s and the bullocks, hogs, and fheep
are not much better. Bullocks muft be purchafed with money
; the price is twelve Spanifh dollars a head, weighing
between 250 and 300 pounds. Other articles may be got
from the natives in exchange for old cloaths, &c. But
the fale of bullocks is confined to a company of merchants •
to whom this privilege is granted, and who keep an agent
refiding upon the fpot. The fort above mentioned feems
wholly defigned for the protection of the bay, and is well
fituated for that purpofe ; being built on an elevation, which
rifes diredtly from the fea on the right, at the head of the
bay.
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