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Streights of La Maire

against us before we are half through so in the morning

14. we found ourselves the third time drove out wind SSW, Short sea & ship pitching most violently the Captn stood into a bay just without Cape St Vincent & while the ship plyd off & on Dr Solander & myself went ashore in the boat & found many plants about 100, tho we were not ashore not above 4 hours of these I may say every one was new & intirely different from what either of us had before seen the countrey about this bay was in general flat here is however good wood & water & vast plenty of fowl & in the cod of the bay a flat coverd with grass where much hay might be made the bay itself however is bad affording but little shelter for shipping & in many Parts of it the bottom rocky & foul this however may be always known in these Countreys by the beds of Fucus Giganteus which constantly grow upon the rock & are not seen on sand or owse they are of an immence lengh we sounded upon them & had 14 fathom water as they seem to make a very acute angle with the bottom in their situation on the water it is difficult to guess how long they
 

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