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A VOYAGE TO 



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O&ober. 

 Saturday 23. 



Sunday 24. 



Monday 25. 



pace with our wifhes, blew in fuch light airs, that we made 

 little way, till eight the next morning, when we had a frefh- 

 breeze from the South South Weft, with which we conti- 

 nued to fteer Weil North Weft till the evening. At noon, we 

 were in latitude 40* 35', longitude 14.6 45' ; the latter de- 

 duced from feveral lunar obfervations taken during the 

 night. The variation of the needle we found to be 17' Eaft. 

 In the evening, we had ftrong fqually gales attended with 

 rain, and having paffed, in the courfe of the day, feveral 

 patches of green grafs, and feen a fhag, many fmali land 

 birds, and flocks of gulls, it was not thought prudent, with 

 all thefe figns of the vicinity of land, to ftand on during 

 the whole night. We therefore tacked at midnight, and 

 fleered a few hours to the South Eaft, and at four in the 

 morning of the 24th, again directed our courfe to the Weft; 

 North Weft, and carried a prefs of fail till feven in the even- 

 ing, when the wind fhifted from South South Weft to- 

 North, and blew a frefh gale. At this time we were in the 

 latitude of 40 57', and the longitude of 145 8 20'. 



This fecond difappointment, in our endeavours to get to 

 the North Weft, together with the boifterous weather we 

 had met with, and the little likelihood, at this time of the 

 year, of its becoming more favourable to our views, were 

 Captain Gore's motives for now finally giving up all farther 

 iearch for the iflands to the North of Japan, and for fhap- 

 ing a courfe Weft South Weft, for the North part of that 

 ifland. In the night, the wind fhifted to the North Eaft, 

 and blew a frefh gale, with hard rain, and hazy weather, 

 which, by noon of the 25th, brought us to the latitude of 

 40" 18', in the longitude 144* o'. To-day we faw flights, of 

 wild ducks, a pigeon lighted on our rigging, and many 



birds, 



