. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. n Island a league intothe sea. Hereafter followeth a Ruttier from the saydriver of Plate to the Streight of Magelane. He cape of Santa Maria is in 35 thence to the Cape de SantoAntonio, which is on the other side ofthe river, are 30 leagues Northnortheast,& Southsouthwest. And this is thebroadest place of the river. And thiscape is in 1^6 degrees and a halfe, andi
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. n Island a league intothe sea. Hereafter followeth a Ruttier from the saydriver of Plate to the Streight of Magelane. He cape of Santa Maria is in 35 thence to the Cape de SantoAntonio, which is on the other side ofthe river, are 30 leagues Northnortheast,& Southsouthwest. And this is thebroadest place of the river. And thiscape is in 1^6 degrees and a halfe, andit is a blacke grosse land. And thou must marke that25 leagues a seaboord the mouth of the river there liecertain e sands, which be called Baixos de los Castellanos. Baixos de losHe that falleth with the Cape of Santa Maria must ^^^^^^^0^-take good heede to go Southeast untill hee be in 36degrees, and from thence Southsoutheast untill 36 degreesand a halfe, giving the sayd sholds de los Castellanos abreadth: and also taking heede of the flats of the when hee findeth 40 or 45 fadomes, and russetsand, then he must goe Southwest and by South, untillhe be in 40 degrees: where hee shall find great store 85. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES Cabo dc Jrenas Gordas. Rio de Cape de Baia Ane- Punta deTierra liana. Baia sin fondo. Cabo de loshones. Puerto de losleones in 44degrees \$better. of weedes, which come from the coast, and a man may go20 leagues from the shore in this sounding. From the Cape de Santo Antonio to the Cape deArenas Gordas are eight & forty leagues, and the coastlieth Northeast and Southwest, and by East, and byWest: and in the first eighteene leagues is the rivercalled Rio de Santa Anna, which hath at the entrancecertaine flats and sholds, give them a good breadth, andcome not nigh them by much, but keepe thy selfe inforty fadomes to goe surely. From the cape de Arenas Gordas to the cape of SantAndre are one and thirty leagues: it lieth Nor
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