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A VOYAGE TO 



1778. with an officer, to get wood from the place where I had 

 Septem cr.^ ja^^dcd two davs before. We continued, for a while, to 

 Hand on and off with the fliips ; but, at length, came to an 

 anchor in one-fourth lefs than j&vc fathoms, half a league 

 from the coaft, the South point of which bore South 2G' 

 Weft; and Bald Head, North 60° Eaft, nine leagues diftant. 

 Cape Denbigh bore South 72° Eaft, twenty-fix miles diftant; 

 and the iftand under the Eaft iliore, to the Southward of Cape 

 Denbigh, named Bejhorough JJlaiuU South 52° Eaft, fifteen 

 leagues diftant. 



As this was a very open road, and confcquently not a.fafe 

 ftation, I refolved not to wait to complete water, as that 

 would require fome time ; but only to fupply tl\e fhips with 

 wood, and then to go in fearch of a more convenient place 

 for the other article. We took off the drift-wood that 

 lay upon the beach ; and as the wind blew along fhore, the 

 boats could fail both ways, which enabled us to make great 

 difpatch. 



In the afternoon, I went afhore, and walked a little into 

 the country; which, where there was no wood, was covered 

 with heath and other plants, fome of which pr^Dduce berries 

 in abundance. All the berries were ripe ; the hurtle-berries 

 too much fo; and hardly a fmgle plant was in flower. The 

 underwood, fiich as birch, willows, and alders, rendered it 

 very troublefome walking amongft the trees, which were all 

 fpruce, and none of them above fix or eight inches in dia- 

 meter. But we found fome lying upon the beach, more 

 than twice this fizc. All the drift-wood in thcfe Northern 

 parts was fir. I faw nor a ftick o^ any other fort. 



Sunday 13. Ncxt day, a family of the natives came near to the place 

 where wc were taking off wood. I know not how many 



there 



