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La Monja may be neared pretty clofe, as may £1 Fnule, but PuIo Cavallo on the north has fome reefis.
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This was the place where the Dutch fleet, under command of thdr admiral Stephen Van der Hagen, lay at anchor, when the day afterwards they crofTed the bay and took the Portuguefe Jfort. fYom this inlet to the Kaaimans Point, there is again no anchorage, except upon the edge of the before-mentioned fand, yet, in cafe of need, one might anchor near the pafs, clofe to the Matta-paflb.
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In. the clofe of the evening they returned accordingly, with eight hogs more, and a little live pig; and by this time the other hogs were jerked and falted.
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In the centre of the fummit was the representation of a bird, carved in wood; clofe to this was the figure of a fifli, which was in ftone.
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On the 29th we paffed clofe by the ifles, or rather the rocks, called the Salvages, lying in the latitude of twenty-nine degrees twenty-five minutes north, and longitude of fixteen degrees thirty-fix minutes from London.
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To clofe then this fubjed, the importance of which alone inclined me to fpend fo much of mine and the reader's time about it:
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On the weftern fide of the gulf and near its entrance is Champagny Port one of the fineft and moft fecure in New Holland: in every part of it is an excellent bottom; the depth of water, even clofe in with the land, is from ten to twelve fathoms; and fuqh is the capacity of this magnificent port it is competent to receive the moft numerous fleets.
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La Monja is an infulated rock which has deep water very clofe to it.
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DAMPI£R*S ACCOXTNT OF K£W HOLLAND. feet like ducks feet, its tail forked like a fwallow, but longer and broader, and the fork deeper than that of the fwallow, with very long wings; the top or crown of the head of this noddy was coal-black, having alfo fmall black ftreaks round about and clofe to.
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It is a ruflF, of the thicknefs of a finger, made in a curious manner ot exceedingly fmall feathers, woven fo clofe together, as to form a furface as fmooth as that of the richeft velvet.
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