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Ma' parted near the inner end ; and we loft both it and the an- 



' ^ ' chor. For although we brought the fhip up with one of the 



bowers, and fpent moft of the day in fweeping for them, it 

 was to no efFe6t, By an obfervation, we found our ftation 

 to be in the latitude of 59" 51'; the low land above men- 

 tioned extended from North Eaft to South, 75* Eaft ; the 

 neareft part two leagues diftant. The land on the Weftern 

 fhore was about feven leagues diftant, and extended from 

 South 2i^ Weft, to North 7° Eaft ; fo that the extent of the 

 inlet was now reduced to three points and a half of the 

 compafs } that is, from North half Eaft, to North Eaft. Be- 

 tween thefe two pcrints no land was to be feen. Here was 

 a ftrong tide fetting to the Southward out of the inlet. It . 

 was the ebb, and ran between three and four knots in an 

 hour ; and it was low water at ten o'clock. A good deal of 

 fea-weed, and fome drift-wood, were carried out with the 

 tide. The water too had become thick like that in rivers ; 

 but we were encouraged to proceed by finding it as fait at 

 low water as the ocean. The ftrength of the flood-tide was 

 three knots j and the ftream ran up till four in the after- 

 noon. 



As it continued calm all day, I did not move till eight 

 o*clock in the evening; when, with a light breeze at Eaft, we 

 weighed, and flood to the North, up the inlet. We had not 

 been long under fail, before the wind veered to the North, 

 increafing to a frcfli gale, and blowing in fqualls, with rain. 

 This did not, however, hinder us from plying up as long 

 as the flood continued j which was till near five o'clock the 

 Friday 29. ncxt momiug. We had foundings from thirty-five to 

 twenty-four fathoms. In this laft depth we anchored about 

 two leagues from the Eaftern fliore, in the latitude of 60° 8' ; 

 fome low land, that we judged to be an ifland, lying under 



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