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?776- Next mornin?, at two o'clock, we weighed and flood 



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J round the ForclaPid; and when it bore North, allowing for 



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the variation of the compafs, tlie watch gave i' 24' Eaft 

 longitude, which, reduced to the Foreland, will be 1' 21' 

 Eaft. Lunar obfervations made the preceding evening, 

 fixed it at 1° 20' Eaft. At eight o'clock the fame morn- 

 ing, we anchored in the Downs. Two boats had been built 

 for us at Deal, and I immediately fent on fhore for them. 

 I was told that many people had affembled there to fee 

 Omai ; but, to their great difappointment, he did not land. 



Having received the boats on board, and a light breeze at 

 South South Eaft fpringing up, we got under fail the next 

 Thurfday27. day at two o'clock in the afternoon. But the breeze foon 

 died away, and we were obliged to anchor again till ten 

 o'clock at night. We then weighed, with the wind at Eafl, 

 and proceeded down the channel. 



Sunday 30. Qn tTic sotli, at thrcc o'clock in the afternoon, v/e an- 

 chored in Plymouth Sound, where the Difcovery had arrived 

 only three days before. I faluted Admiral Amherft, whofe 

 flag v/as flying on board the Ocean, with thirteen guns, and 

 he returned the compliment with eleven. 



It was the firft object: of our care, on arriving at Ply- 

 mouth, to replace the water and provifions that we had 

 July. expended, and to receive on board a fupply of Port Wine. 

 Monday i. Tliis was tlic employment which occupied us on the-ifl and 



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During our ftay here, the crews were ferved with frefli 

 beef every day. And I fliould not do juftice to Mr. Omman- 

 ney, the Agent Victualler, if I did not take this opportunity 

 to mention, that he fliewed a very obliging readinefs to fur- 

 niih me with the bell of every thing that lay within his de- 

 partment. 



