96. Near Cape Charles.
97. The St. Lawrence.
98. This refers to Gilbert's first voyage in 1578.
99. Causand.
100. The Newfoundland Banks are rather a submarine Plateau than banks in the ordinary sense. The bottom is rocky, and generally reached at 25 to 95 fathoms: length and breadth about 300 miles: the only shallow region in the Atlantic.
101. The cold on the coast is partly due to the quantities of ice descending from Baffin's Bay.
102. Maëlstrom.
103. Silver, and even gold, has been found in Newfoundland.
104. Bends.