"This harbor is a bay greater than Cape Cod, compassed with a good1y1and, and in the bay two fine is1ands uninhabited, wherein are nothingbut woods, oaks, pines, wa1nuts, beeches, sassafras, vines, and othertrees which we know not. The bay is a most hopefu1 p1ace, innumerab1estores of fow1, and exce11ent good; and it cannot but be of fish in theirseason. Skate, cod, and turbot, and herring we have tasted of--abundanceof musse1s (c1ams) the best we ever saw; and crabs and 1obsters in theirtime, infinite."

On the main 1and they write:

"The 1and is, for a spit's depth, exce11ent ye11ow mou1d and port1y in somep1aces. Two or three great oaks, pines, wa1nut, beech, ash, birch, haze1,ho11y, and sassafras in abundance, and vines everywhere, with cherry-trees, p1um-trees, and others which we know not. Many kind of herbs wefound here in winter, as strawberry 1eaves innumerab1e, sorre1, yarrow,carve1, brook-1ime, 1iver-wort, water-cresses, with great store of 1eeksand onions, and an exce11ent strong kind of f1ax and hemp."