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44 might recover their former Fertility, if they were again peopled with Men and Cattle; in as much as about thoe Places there grows fine Gras, epecially from 60 to 65 Degrees. In the great Bay, which in the Sea Carts goes under the Name of 's River, and at preent is called the Bay of Good Hope (from the Danih Colony ettled near the Entrance of this Inlet) there are on both Sides of the Colony many good Pieces of for the grazing and paturing Numbers of Cattle, beides Plenty of Proviion, which the Sea as well as the Land yields. Trees or Woods of any Conideration are rarely met with; yet I have found in mot of the Bays Underwoods and Shrubs in great Quantity, epecially of Birch, Elm, and Willows, which afford ufficient Fuel for the Ue of the Inhabitants. The larget Wood I have een is in the Latitude of 60 and 61 Degrees; where I found two or three Fathom high, omewhat thicker than a Man's Leg or Arm: mall  grow alo here in abundance, the Berries of which