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A VOYAGE TO 



•778- paft four, we were alarmed at hearing the found of breakers 

 on our larboard bow. On heaving the lead, we found 

 twenty-eight fathoms water ; and the next caft, twenty-five. 

 I immediately brought the fhip to, with her head to the 

 Northward, and anchored in this laft depth, over a bottom 

 of coarfe fand ; calling, the Difcovery, fhe being clofe by us». 

 to anchor alfo. 



A few hours after, the fog having cleared away a little, 

 it appeared that we had efcaped very imminent danger. 

 We found ourfelves three q^uarters of a mile from the Norths 

 Eaft fide of an ifland, which extended from South by Weft 

 half Weft, to North by Eaft half Eaft, each extreme about 

 a league diftant. Two elevated rocks, the one bearing 

 South by Eaft, and the other Eaft by South, were about half 

 a league each from us, and about the fame diftance from 

 each other. There were feveral breakers about them; and 

 yet Providence had, in the dark, condu(5ted the fliips through, 

 between thefe rocks, which I fliould not have ventured in a 

 clear day, and to fuch an anchoring-place, that I could not 

 have chofen a better. 



Finding ourfelves fo near land, I fent a boat to examine 

 what it produced. In the afternoon flie returned ; and the 

 officer, who commanded her, reported, that it produced 

 fome tolerably good grafs, and feveral other fmall plants ; 

 one of which was like purftain, and eat very well, either in 

 foups, or as a fallad. There was no appearance of flirubs or 

 trees ; but on the beach were a few pieces of drift-wood. It 

 was judged to be low- water between ten and eleven o'clock;, 

 and we found, where we lay at anchor, that the flood-tide 

 came from the Eaft or South Eaft. 



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