Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers

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[282] bay, the land Iieth north by east, and we had a great stream out of the bay; and from thence our sounding was ten fathoms two leagues from the land . . . . The 3d [September] the morning misty until ten of the clock; then it cleared, and the wind came to the south south-east: so we weighed, and stood to the northward. The land is very pleasant and high, and bold to fall withal.¹

At three of the clock in the afternoon we came to three great rivers. So we stood along to the northernmost, thinking to have gone into it; but we found it to have a very shoal bar before it, for we had but ten foot water. Then we cast about to the southward, and found two fathoms, three fathoms, and three and a quarter, till we came to the souther side of them; then we had five and six fathoms, and anchored. So we sent in our boat to sound; and they found no less water than four, five, six, and seven fathoms, and returned in an hour and a half. So we weighed and went in, and rode in five fathoms, ooze ground, and saw salmons and mullets, and rays very great. The height² is 40° 30′.

The 4th, in the morning, as soon as the day was light, we saw that it was good riding³ farther up. So we sent our boat to sound, and found that it was a very good harbor, and four and five fathoms two cables' length from the shore. Then we weighed, and went in with our ship. Then our boat went on⁴ land with our net to fish, and caught ten great mullets of a foot and a half long apiece, and a ray as great as four