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Ost the Bay ftd ILivtrs fecd somany Wüd Fwl, is in Winter-timetheydo in some placcs Cover the Water for 2 Miles ; the chief of which are' Wild Susans and Oeese, Cormorants , Broms , Shield-fowl, Duck and Möl-lernd, Teal, Wigerns, withroany others.

Tbere likewise keep in theRivers Bevcrs and' Otter*; the Btvers havetheir Teeth so Strorgand Sharp, thatthey Gnaw down Trees, wherewiththey make Damms coss the Waters, under which they Keep, which aretifu^lly cail’d Bexxr-Damms, and in some places'serve in the Roojn oiFoot-Brsdges.

The Original Springs, that make all, these River s, arise at the Foot of the‘lAppal-lean Mountams ; but the Cataraßs or : Falls of these Rivers are So or70 Miles Distant from the Mosmtams.

These Mountams have their Beginning North ward at theL&ke of Cana-Ja, and run all along the'Back of the Country to the South'West as far asthe Lake Ujherre, which is some Hwsdreds öf Leagues.

There was one Coll. CatUt, that was a good Mathematician, who withsome other Gentlemen took a Journey to make some further Difcoveries ofthe GoumYy to the Westward, and arriving at the Foot of the Mountaintearly in the Morning, they lest their Horses and endeavour’d to gain thelost of- the Mountams, which they accomplifh’d abour 4 öfthc Clockiathe Afternoon, and then looking further torward, they Diseover’d otherMountams, whereof they took the Altitudt and judg’d them Inacceflible;which disoourag’d them'from anjrfurther Attempts.

Above 5 Years since rhere was a Otrnsan Chirurgeon who obtained aCommission from Sir Will. Bartlet to Travel to the Soutb-Weß of Virginia^and to make Diseoverie of those Parts. He went along the Foot of theMountams vs-tu as the Lake Ußierrc, and diseovered'them to be Paflablein Two Places ; and he gives a relation, that, wbile he was in an IndianTown adjacent to the Mountams. there cämc 4, Indianto n an Embaffie tothe'King of that Town, siroma King that'Lived on the other side of theMosmtams.

At bis Retom he brought an Emerald, and some Spansfls Montj, which heseid hehad of the Indians bordcring on the Lake of Üfberrt} which caUPcd some to think that some Spaniaras are seated ncar upon the Lack of theseMountams.

The Shoarsall along the Boy and Rivers are for the mostpart,S4»&, butonly in some Points there is some Sbinglt cast up: but the Eartb afiordethvery few Stonts, and those that are there, are almost all of them Hard andTransparent. I havetaken up several Stonts, that would cut Glase as Wellas any Diamond: and I do verily thirtk, that there are some Stonts gatheredthere that do abate the Pfice of Diamondt ; for I have seen several Rings ofVirgmsbStmts, which in my Judgment have equalled Diamonds in Lu-(ftr.

The CHffs of all the Rivers are füll öfgreatVeins of Iron-mine, and insotne Places of the Country I have seen Rocks of the some to lyea Foot anbove the Eartb; and generally all the Highlands under the Mould are a

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