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derate height, diversified with hills and valleys, and, 

 almost every where, covered with wood. There was, 

 however, no very striking object on any part of it, 

 except one hill, whose elevated summit w r as flat. 

 This bore east from us, at noon. At the northern 

 extreme the land formed a point, which I called Cape 

 Foulweather, from the very bad weather that we 

 soon after met with. I judge it to lie in the lati- 

 tude of 44 55' N., and in thebngitude of 235 51/ E. 



We had variable light airs and calms till eight 

 o'clock in the evening, when a breeze sprung up at 

 south-west. With it I stood to the north-west, under 

 an easy sail, waiting for day-light to range along 

 the coast. But at four, next morning, the wind 

 shifted to north-west, and blew in squalls, with rain. 

 Our course was north-east, till near ten o'clock, when, 

 rinding that I could make no progress on this tack, 

 and seeing nothing like a harbour, 1 tacked, and stood 

 off south-west. At this time, Cape Foulweather bore 

 north-east by north, about eight leagues distant. 

 Toward noon the wind veered more to the westward, 

 and the weather became fair and clear, so that we 

 were enabled to make lunar observations. Having 

 reduced all those that we had made since the 19th of 

 last month to the present ones, by the time-keeper, 

 amounting, in the whole, to seventy-two sets, their 

 mean result determined the longitude to be c 235 15' 

 %6" E. 9 which was 14 11/ less than what the time- 

 keeper gave. This longitude is made use of for settling 

 that of the coast, and I have not a doubt of its being 

 within a very few miles of the truth. 



Our difficulties now began to increase. In the 

 evening the wind came to the north-west, blowing in 

 squalls with hail and sleet ; and the weather being 

 thick and hazy, I stood out to sea till near noon the 

 next day, when I tacked and stood in again for the 

 land, which made its appearance at two in the after- 

 noon, bearing east north-east. The wind and weather 

 continued the same; but, in the evening, the former 



