Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1630-05-09
The winde still S: w: a good gale but close weather and some rayne, we heald on our Course w: n: w: about 9: it cleered vp: and towardes night a great fogge; for an howre or 2: we were now in 44: ½. n: lat. and a litle west of Corves.1
Corvo, the northernmost of the Azores, so called, according to Josselyn, “from a multitude of Crowes.” See also Reuben Gold Thwaites, Ed., The Jesuit Relations, 1. (Cleveland, 1896), 147, and 1
Proceedings
, XVIII. 94.