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ment in it. He did not feem to underfland any of the 

 words commonly ufcd by our vifiters in the Sound, \vh?n . 

 repeated to him. But, perhaps, our fauhy pronunciation, 

 rather than his ignorance of the dialeft, may be inferred 

 from this. 



The weather was cloudy and hazy, with, now and then, 



Monday 22. funlhine, till the afternoon of the 22d, when the wind came 

 round to the South Eaft, and, as ufual, brought thick rainy 

 weather. Before the fog came on, no part of the main land 

 was in fight, except the volcano, and another mountain clofe 

 by it. I continued to fleer Weft till feven in the evening, 

 when, being apprehenfive of falling in with the land in 

 thick weather, we hauled the wind to the Southward, till 



Tuefdayij. two o'clock ncxt moming, and then bore away again 

 Weft. We made but little progrcfs, having the wind va- 

 riable, and but little of it, till at laft it fixed in the Weftern 

 board, and at five in the afternoon, having a gleam of fun- 

 fliine, we faw land bearing North 59° Weft, appearing in hil- 

 locks like illands. 



Wccfnef. 24. At fix in the morning of the 2.i,th, we got a fight of the 

 continent; and at nine it was feen extending from North 

 Eaft by Eaft, to South Weft by Weft, half Weft; the neareft 

 part about four leagues diftant. The land to the South Weft 

 proved to be iflandsj the fame that had been feen the pre- 

 ceding evening. But the other was a continuation of the 

 continent, without any iftands to obftruift our view of it. In 

 the evening, being about four leagues from the fhore, in 

 forty-two fathoms water, having little or no wind, we had. 

 recourlc to our hooks and lines ; but only two or three fmall 

 cod were caught. 



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