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THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



the Weftern lliore, extended from North half Weft, to North 1778. 

 Weft by North, diftant three or four leagues. . ^^y-^ 



The weather had now become fair and tolerably clear ; 

 fo that we could fee any land that might lie within our ho- 

 rizon j and in a North North Eaft dire(51:ion no land, nor any 

 thing to obftru(5t our progrefs, was vifible. Bur, on each 

 fide was a ridge of mountains, riling one behind another, 

 without the leaft feparation. I judged it to be low water 

 by the fliore, about ten o'clock ; but the ebb ran down 

 till near noon. The ftrength of it was four knots and a 

 half ; and it fell, upon a perpendicular, ten feet three 

 inches, that is, while we lay an anchor ; fo that there is 

 reafon to believe this was not the greateft fall. On the 

 Eaftern fliore we now faw two columns of fmokc, a fure 

 lign that there were inhabitants. 



Atone in the afternoon we weighed, and plyed up under 

 double-reefed top-fails and courfes, having a very ftrong 

 gale at North North Eaft, nearly right down the inlet. We 

 llretched over to the Weftern fhore, and fetched within two 

 leagues of ,the South end of the low land, or ifland before 

 mentioned, under which I intended to have taken flicker till 

 the gale fliould ceafe. But falling fuddenly into twelve fa- 

 thoms water, from upward of forty, and feeing the appear- 

 ance of a ilioal ahead, fpitting out from the low land, I 

 tacked, and ftretched back to the Eaftward ; and anchored 

 under that fhore in nineteen fathoms water, over a bottom 

 of fmall pebble ftones. 



Between one and two in the mornir. r of the "^oth, we ^ , 



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weighed again with the firft of the flood, the gale having, 

 by this time, quite abated, but ftill continuing contrary; 

 fo that we plied up till near icwcn. o'clock, when the tide 



being 



