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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XIV: the Pilgrims at Plymouth (A. D. 1620-1621.) (search)
ur or five miles from us. Governor Winslow. In the morning we divided our company, some eight in the shallop; and the rest on the shore went to discover this place. But we found it only to be a bay, Wellfleet harbor. without either river or creek coming into it. Yet we deemed it to be as good a harbor as Cape Cod; for they that sounded it found a ship might ride in five fathom water. We on the land found it to be a level soil, though none of the fruitfulest. We saw two becks Brooks; i.e., Indian Brook and Cook's Brook. of fresh water, which were the first running streams that we saw in the country; but one might stride over them. We found also a great fish, called a grampus, One of the dolphin family, sometimes twenty-five feet long. dead on the sands. They in the shallop found two of them also in the bottom of the bay, dead in like sort. They were cast up at high water, and could not get off for the frost and ice. They were some five or six paces long, and abou