The land is of an indifferent height, so that it may be seen 9 or 10 leagues off.  It appears at a distance very even; but as you come nigher you find there are many gentle risings, though none steep nor high.  It is all a steep shore against the open sea:  but in this bay or sound we were now in the land is low by the seaside, rising gradually in within the land.  The mould is sand by the seaside, producing a large sort of samphire, which bears a white flower.  Farther in the mould is reddish, a sort of sand producing some grass, plants, and shrubs.  The grass grows in great tufts as big as a bushel, here and there a tuft:  being intermixed with much heath, much of the kind we have growing on our commons in England.  Of trees or shrubs here are divers sorts; but none above 10 foot high:  their bodies about 3 foot about, and 5 or 6 foot high before you come to the branches, which are bushy and composed of small twigs there spreading abroad, though thick set, and full of leaves; which were mostly long and narrow.  The colour of the leaves was on one side whitish, and on the other green; and the bark of the trees was generally of the same colour with the leaves, of a pale green.  Some of these trees were sweet-scented, and reddish within the bark, like the sassafras, but redder.  Most of the trees and shrubs had at this time either blossoms or berries on them.  The blossoms of the different sort of trees were of several colours, as red, white, yellow, etc., but mostly blue:  and these generally smelt very sweet and fragrant, as did some also of the rest.  There were also beside some plants, herbs, and tall flowers, some very small flowers, growing on the ground, that were sweet and beautiful, and for the most part unlike any I had seen elsewhere.

A particular sort of iguana:  Fish, and beautiful shells; turtle, large shark, and water-serpents.

There were but few land-fowls; we saw none but eagles of the larger sorts of birds; but 5 or 6 sorts of small birds.  The biggest sort of these were not bigger than larks; some no bigger than wrens, all singing with great variety of fine shrill notes; and we saw some of their nests with young ones in them.  The water-fowls are ducks (which had young ones now, this being the beginning of the spring in these parts) curlews, galdens, crab-catchers, cormorants, gulls, pelicans; and some waterfowl, such as I have not seen anywhere besides.  I have given the pictures of 4 several birds on this coast.

The land animals that we saw here were only a sort of raccoon, different from those of the West Indies, chiefly as to their legs; for these have very short forelegs; but go jumping upon them as the others do (and like them are very good meat) and a sort of iguana, of the same shape and size with other iguanas described, but differing from them in 3 remarkable particulars:  for these had a larger and uglier head, and had no