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Page 31
... sounding the waters lying to the south , within Sandy Hook , and forming what is now called the Horse - Shoe . Here the boat's crew landed , and penetrated some distance into the woods , in what is now Monmouth county , in New - Jersey ...
... sounding the waters lying to the south , within Sandy Hook , and forming what is now called the Horse - Shoe . Here the boat's crew landed , and penetrated some distance into the woods , in what is now Monmouth county , in New - Jersey ...
Page 61
... sounding , blacke , ozie , sandie , with some yellow shels . Our ship made more way than we did sup- pose . On Saturday , the thirtieth of May , by our obseruation we were in 61 degrees 11 minutes . This day I found the Needle to ...
... sounding , blacke , ozie , sandie , with some yellow shels . Our ship made more way than we did sup- pose . On Saturday , the thirtieth of May , by our obseruation we were in 61 degrees 11 minutes . This day I found the Needle to ...
Page 73
... sounding thirtie fathoms , and after sixe and twentie fathoms , but being farther in , we had no ground at an hundred fathoms , and therefore judged it rather a Sound then a Bay . Be- tweene this high ragged , in the swampes and vallies ...
... sounding thirtie fathoms , and after sixe and twentie fathoms , but being farther in , we had no ground at an hundred fathoms , and therefore judged it rather a Sound then a Bay . Be- tweene this high ragged , in the swampes and vallies ...
Page 79
... sounded againe , and had ground at 30 fathomes small stones like Beanes , at the next cast no ground at 60 fathomes . I cast about againe , and steered South - west 6 leagues , West and by North two leagues till the next day noone . All ...
... sounded againe , and had ground at 30 fathomes small stones like Beanes , at the next cast no ground at 60 fathomes . I cast about againe , and steered South - west 6 leagues , West and by North two leagues till the next day noone . All ...
Page 84
... sounded , and had 140 fathoms , sand Oze : here wee saw a swelling Sea setting North - east and by East , and South - west and by West , with streame- leches and we saw drift wood . After we had wind ; and we sayled and made our way ...
... sounded , and had 140 fathoms , sand Oze : here wee saw a swelling Sea setting North - east and by East , and South - west and by West , with streame- leches and we saw drift wood . After we had wind ; and we sayled and made our way ...
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