you shall haue clay or oaze, and in 30. fathom to the landward sand.
Punta delgada, or The slender point. And from thence to Punta de hidalgo or Puma delgada the coast lyeth Northeast and Southwest.
Soundings of Villa rica.
If you fall with Villa Rica in 30. fathoms, you shall finde clay or oaze, and in some places stones, and neere the lande you shall haue sand: and vpon the port of S. Iuan de Vllua you shall haue in some places clay or oaze, and in some places herring bones, and in other places mase and[1] ;and vpon the rocks called Cabeças anegadas you shall haue small blacke sande at 17. fathom two leagues from land.
Cabeças anegadas are sunken heads or rocks vnder water.
Comedera de Pescado
And if you see a
coast that lieth Northeast and Southwest, and another Northwest
and Southeast, you shall be vpon S. Paul: and if you
should be vpon Cabeças anegadas, you shall finde in
30. fathoms great sande and blacke, and in 28.
fathoms you shall haue the sand white like the shauings
of free stone: and from S. Paul to the barre of
Vera Cruz it is clay or oaze, and from thence to S. Iuan de
Vllua you haue many deeps, which at one sounding bring you
clay, and at another sand, and at another clay and mase together,
and herring bones: and in some 35. or 40. fathom you shal finde
rockie ground, and in some places sand, and in some other
places herring bones: and we call this Comedera de
pescado, or The foode of fishes.
The course from Cabo de Corrientes and Cabo de S. Anton vpon the West end of Cuba, towards Nueua Espanna, within the Isles called Los Alacranes, or The Scorpions.
Cabo de Corrientes If you saile from Cape de Corrientes towarde Nueua Espanna on the inside of The Alacranes, you must stir West: and when you thinke you haue sailed 35. or 40. leag. you shall sound vpon the pracel, and you shall come vpon many bristlings of waters, which if it were faire weather, would seeme a skull of fish.
Cabo de S. Anton And before you come out of the bristlings, if you sound you shal haue depth as I haue sayd. If you goe from Cape de S. Anton by the inside of
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