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'7-8. pafTcd two fmall iflands, lying between us and the main ; and 

 ,__I1^_^ as we ranged along the coalt, feveral people appeared upon 

 tlie lliore, and, by figns, feemed to invite us to approach 

 them. 



As foon as we were without the ifland, we fleered South by 

 Weft, for the Southernmofl; point of the continent in fight, 

 till eight o'clock in the evening, when, having fhoaled the 

 water from fix fathoms to lefs than four, I tacked, and flood 

 to the Northward, into five fathoms, and then fpent the night 

 lying off and on. At the time we tacked, the Southernmoft 

 point of land, the fame which is mentioned above, and was 

 named Po'mi Shalloiv-lVater^ bore South half Eafl, feven leagues 

 diftant. 



\Vc refumcd our courfe to the Soutliward at day-break 

 Saturday 19. Dcxt moming ; but flioal water obliged us to haul more to 

 the Weft ward. At length, we got io far advanced upon the 

 bank, that we could not hold a North North Weft courfe, 

 meeting fometimes with only four fathoms. The wind 

 blowing frefli at Eaft North Eaft, it was high time to look 

 for deep water, and to quit a coaft> upon which we could no 

 longer navigate with any degree of fufety. I therefore 

 hauled the wind to the Northward, and gradually deepened 

 the water to eight fathoms. At the time we hauled the wind, 

 we were at leaft twelve leagues from the continent, and nine 

 to the Weftward of Stuart's Hland. No land was feen to the 

 Southward of Point Shallow- Water, which I judge to lie in 

 the latitude of G^. So that between this latitude, and Shoal 

 Nefs, in latitude 60°, the coaft is entirely unexplored. Pro- 

 bably, it is accellible only to boats, or very fmall vcfTcls j 

 or, at leaft, if there be channels for larger veflcls, it would 

 require fome time to find them ; and I am of opinion, that 

 I they 



