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point of Green Iflands. Afterward, fome others were fcen 1778. 



May. 



in the middle of the channel farther out than the iflands. <_ -. -' _f 

 Thefe rocks made unfafe plying in the night (though not 

 very dark); and, for that reafon, we fpent it Handing off 

 and on, imder Montagu Ifland ; for the depth of water 

 was toQ great to come to an anchor. 



At day-break, the next morning, the wind came more fa- TuefJay 19.. 

 vourable, and we fleered for the channel between Montagu 

 Ifland and the Green Iflands, which is between two and 

 three leagues broad, and from thirty- four to feventeen fa- 

 thoms deep. We had but little wind all the day; and, at 

 eight o'clock in the evening, it was a dead calm; when we 

 anchored in twenty-one fathoms water, over a muddy bot- 

 tom; about two miles from the fliore of Montagu's Ifland.. 

 The calm continued till ten o'clock the next morning, when wedneC 20. 

 it was fucceeded by a fmall breeze from the North, with 

 which we weighed ; and, by fix o'clock in the evening, we 

 •were again in the open fea, and found the coafl: trending 

 Weft by South, as far as the eye could reach.. 



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