Twee Scheeps-togten van Kapiteyn Johan Smith, beyde gedaan na Nieuw-Engeland. De eerste in het jaar 1614....

1614.

Neighboring Islands.

against the Tarrantines, which stretches out to the high region of Penobscot and to the Sea. Across all these Lands and islands, one can see for 16 to 18 miles without obstruction from their dwellings. Segocket appears here closest, then Nuskoucus, Pemmaquid, and Sagadahock. Along this river and Western plantation, one finds Amoughcawgen, Kinnebeke, and several others. In these places, one also finds some cornfields; but along the water's edge for 40 or 50 miles, I have seen nothing but high banks of uncultivated stone cliffs overgrown with shrubs and trees. Yet, where the Wilds indigenous people reside, the ground is firm and fertile. On the West side of this water, one arrives at the landscape of
Aucocisco. Aucocisco, at the extreme part of a large and deep Gulf, which is filled with beautiful islands and provided with fine harbors.

Sawocatuck.

Sawocatuck is the closest in the corner of a sandy, wide Gulf, which has many stone cliffs but few good harbors, except only for small barques, at least as far as I have been able to discern. But the sea coast up to Penobscot, and as far as I could observe to the East, consists of nothing but high cliffs and rocky islands, over which I marveled greatly when I considered that such high trees could grow on such stony rocks. It is a landscape like a wilderness, which would frighten a person more than delight them. Nevertheless, the Sea is as fish-rich as I have ever seen anywhere in the world. Above that, these wild islands are also provided with an abundance of wood, springs of water, fruits, and birds; from which I conclude that, although the sea beach is full of cliffs and rocks, the valleys and fields further inland must be very fertile; for one finds no Land,
Sea very rich in fish.