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A VOYAGE TO 



'778- found forty-eight fathoms, over a bottom of black fand. 

 %_'_ -.- _j Being at this time fom- leagues from the land, the Eaftern 

 part in fight bore Eaft South Eaft, and appeared as a high 

 round hummock, feemingly detached from the main. 



Having continued to fleer Eaft North Eaft all night, at 

 5atorday4. eight in thc momiug of the 4th, the coaft was feen from 

 South South Weft, and Eaft by South ; and at times we could 

 fee high land, covered with fnow, behind it. Soon after, it 

 fell calm, and being in thirty fathoms water, we put over 

 hooks and lines, and caught a good number of fine cod-fifh. 

 At noon, having now a breeze from the Eaft, and the wea- 

 ther being clear, we found ourfelves fix leagues from the 

 land, which extended from South by Weft to Eaft by South. 

 The hummock, fccn the preceding evening, bore South 

 Weft by South, ten leagues diftant. Our latitude was now 

 55° 50', and our longitude 197'' 3'. A great hollow fwell 

 from Weft South Weft, afllired lis, that there was no main 

 land near, in that diredlion. I ftood to the North till fix in 

 the afternoon, when the wind having veered to South Eaft, 

 enabled us to fteer Eaft North Eaft. Thc coaft lay in this 

 direction, and, at noon the nest day, was about four leagues 

 diftant. 



On the 6th and 7th, the wind being Northerly, we made 

 but little progrefs. At eight in the evening of the latter, wc 

 were in nineteen fathoms water, and about three or four 

 leagues from the coaft, which, on the 8th, extended from 

 South South Weft to Eaft by North, and was all low land, 

 with a ridge of mountains behind it, covered with fnow. 

 It is probable, that this low coaft extends, fome diftancc, to 

 the South Weft ; and that luch places as wc fometimes took 

 for inlets or bays, are only vallies between the mountains. 



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Cunday 5. 



Monday 6 

 Tuefday 7, 



IVcdnef. 8. 



