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A VOYAGE TO 



1779- having turned, wc were again obliged to drop anchor in 



», JL , feven fathoms ; the Three Needle Rocks bearing South halt 



Eaft; and the o/lrog North half Eaft, at the diftance of one 

 mile from the neareft land. After dinner, I went, with 

 Captain Gore, on fhore on the Eaft fide of the paffage, where 

 we faw, in two different places, the remains of extenfive 

 villages ; and, on the fide of the hill, an old ruined parapet, 

 with four or five embrafures. It commanded the paffage up 

 the mouth of the bay; and, in Beering's time, as he him- 

 felf mentions, had guns mounted on it. Near this place, 

 were the ruins of fome caverns under ground, which we 

 fuppofed to have been magazines. 



At fix in the afternoon we weighed with the ebb tide, and 

 turned to windward ; but, at eight, a thick fog ariling, we 

 were obliged to bring to, as our foundings could not afford us 

 a fufEcient direction for fleering between feveral funk rocks, 

 which lie on each fide of the paffage wc had to make. In 

 Monday 14. the morning of the 14th, the fog clearing away, we weighed 

 as foon as the tide began to ebb; and, having little wind, 

 fent the boats ahead to tow ; but, at ten o'clock, both the 

 wind and tide fet in fo ftrong from the fea, that we were 

 again obliged to drop anchor in thirteen fathoms, the high 

 rock bearing Weft one quarter South, diftant three qu 5 



of a mile. Wc remained faf, for the reft of the day; the 

 wind blowing frefh into. the mouth of the bay; and, to- 

 ward evening, the weather had a very unufual appcarar.ee, 

 being exceedingly dark and cloudy, with an unfcttled fhift- 



ine wind, 

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TucfJayis- Before day-light, on the 15th, wc were furptifed with a 



rumbling noile, refembling ;t hollow thunder; and, 



when the day broke, wc found the < and fides of the 



7 fhips 



