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'778- than in any I had before met with. Our boats returning 



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u — , — J from founding fecmed to alaim them ; fo that they all left 

 us fooner than probably they woaid otherwife have done. 



Wednef. 12. It was the 22d in the evenin<T before we got clear of thefe 

 fhoals, and then I duril not vemure to fteer ro the Weftward 

 in the night, bur fpent it off *^ ape Newenh^im; and at day- 



Thurfdayaj. break, ncxt morning, iteered to the North Weft, ordering 

 the Difcovery to lead. Before we had run two leagues, our 

 depth of water decreafed to fix fathoms. Fearing if we 

 continued this courfe, that we Ihould find lefs and lefs 

 water, I hauled to the Southward ; the wind being at Eaft, 

 a frefli breeze. This courle brought us gradually into 

 eighteen fathoms, and, having that depth, I ventured to 

 fteer a little Wefteily ; and afterward Weft, when we at laft 

 found twenty-fix fathoms water. 



Friday 24. On the 24rh at noon we were, by obfervation, in the la- 



titude of 58° 7', and in the longitude of 194* 22'. Three 

 leagues to the Weftward of this ftation we had twenty-eight 

 fathoms water, and then fleered Weft North Weft, the water 

 gradually deepening to thirty-four fathoms. I would have 

 ftcercd more Northcily, but the wind having veered in that 

 diredtion, I could not. 



Saturday 25. The 25th in the evening, having a very thick fog, and but 

 little wind, we dropped anchor in thirty fathoms water. 

 Our latitude was now 58° 2y', and our longitude 191° 37'. 



Sunday 26. ^t fix, the next morning, the weather clearing up a little, 

 wc weighed, and, with a fmall breeze at Eaft, fleered North; 

 our foundings being from tvventy-cigiit to twenty-five fa- 

 thoms After running nine leagues upon this courfe, the 

 wind returned back to the North, which obliged us to fteer 

 more Wcfterly. 



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