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any longer before it, and, therefore, brought the 

 ships to with their heads to the southward, under the 

 foresails and mizen stay-sails. At this time the Reso- 

 lution sprung a leak, which, at first, alarmed us not a 

 little. It was found to be under the starboard but- 

 tock; where, from the bread-room, we could both hear 

 and see the water rush in, and, as we then thought, 

 two feet under water. But in this we were happily 

 mistaken \ for it was afterward found to be even with 

 the water-line, if not above it, when the ship was 

 upright. It was no sooner discovered, than the fish- 

 room was found to be full of water, and the casks in 

 it afloat ; but this was, in a great measure, owing 

 to the water not finding its way to the pumps 

 through the coals that lay in the bottom of the 

 room ; for after the water was baled out, which 

 employed us till midnight, and had found its way 

 directly from the leak to the pumps, it appeared 

 that one pump kept it under which gave us no 

 small satisfaction. In the evening, the wind veered 

 to the S., and its fury in some degree ceased. On 

 this we set the main sail and two topsails close- 

 reefed, and stretched to the westward ; but at eleven 

 o'clock the gale again increased, and obliged us to 

 take in the topsails, till five o'clock the next morning, 

 when the storm began to abate ; so that we could 

 bear to set them again. 



The weather now began to clear up ; and being 

 able to see several leagues round us, I steered more 

 to the northward. At noon, the latitude, by observ- 

 ation, was 50 1' ; longitude 229 26'. * I now steered 

 N.W. by N., with a fresh gale at S. S.E., and fair 

 weather. But at nine in the evening it began again 

 to blow hard and in squalls with rain. With such 



* As in the remaining part of this volume, the latitude and 

 longitude are very frequently set down ; the former being invari- 

 ably north and the latter east, the constant repetition of the two 

 words north and east, has been omitted, to avoid unnecessary pre- 

 cision. 



