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A VOYAGE TO 



1778. 



July. 



Auguft. 

 Saturday I. 



Sunday 2, 

 Monday 3. 



wind veering to the Eaftward, we tacked, and flood to the 

 North Weft. Soon after the wind came to South Eaft ; and 

 we fleered North Eail by North ; which courfc we conti- 

 nued, with foundings from thirty-five to twenty fathoms, 

 till next day at noon. At this time we were in the latitude 

 of 60° 58', and in the longitude of 191°. The wind now 

 ^veering to North Eaft, I firft made a ftretch of ten leagues to 

 the North Weft ; and then, feeing no land in that direcftion, 

 I ftood back, to the Eaftward about fifteen leagues, and met 

 with nothing but pieces of drift-wood. The foundings were 

 from tv^enty-two to nineteen fathoms. 



Variable, light winds, with fhowers of rain, prevailed all 

 the 2d ; but fixing in the South Eaft quarter, in the morning 

 of the 3d, we refumed our courfe to the Northward. At noon 

 we were, by obfervation, in the latitude of 62° 34', our lon- 

 gitude was 192°; and our depth of water fixteen fathoms. 



Mr. Anderfon, my furgeon, who had been lingering un- 

 der a confumption for more than twelve months, expired 

 between three and four this afternoon. He was a fenfible 

 young man, an agreeable companion, well fliilled in his 

 own profcfiion ; and had acquired confiderable knowledge 

 in other branches of fcicnce. The reader of this Journal 

 will have obfervcd how ufeful an afiiftant I had found him 

 in the courfe of the voyage ; and had it pleafed God to have 

 fpared his life, the Public, I make no doubt, might have re- 

 ceived from him fuch communications, on various parts of 

 the natural hiftory of the feveral places we vifited, as would 

 have abundantly fliewn, that he was not unworthy of this 

 commendation *. Soon after he had breathed his laft, land 



• Mr. Andcrfon's Journal fcems to have been difcontinued for about two months 

 before his death ; the lall date in his MSS. bci»g of the jJ of June. 



was 



