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Iron Stone with a remarkable beach near its extremity, the little bay to the Northward of this point, is well sheltered for small Craft in 2 & 3 fathoms, within this depth the bottom is rocky. Near the point are about 50 acres of tolerably clayey Soil, but in general it contains a large proportion of granite Sand, with blocks of that Stone rising above the surface; two water courses near this point are now dry.
Points EF.
Our points E F are a few spots of good black mold covering a bed of stiff red clay, which appears proper for making Bricks; a deep gully between two hills, appears at times to be the channel of a large body of water but at present it is dry; these two points are bluff and long stoney spits run off from them, the trees are close but small.
FG.
From FG are many high bluff points forming little bays some of which are sandy, and some rocky, in one of them the Cliffs are perpendicular, and formed of pure pipe Clay. The South point of this bay is
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