92 PROGRESS UP 



1824. occasions, their cheerful alacrity and good-hii- 



Sept. mour was ahovc all praise. 



The wind had rather decreased at daylight 

 on the lOth, and it was found by the bearing 

 of a remarkable hummock, that we had lost 

 no ground daring the night. As the weather 

 moderated, we made sail N.w.b.N., but an un- 

 easy sea prevented our keeping head way. A 

 whale was seen in the forenoon. At three 

 P.M. the land of some part of Southampton, 

 possibly the mountains on its eastern shore, 

 was visible to the north-east, from aloft, while 

 at the same time the apparent termination of 

 the American coast at Cape Dobbs, was north, 

 about thirty miles. 



A dry day enabled us to put the people's 

 clothes in order again, yet, such had been our 

 ill success in weathey, that the rising of a cloud, 

 or the slightest increase of wind, led us to fear 

 the coming of a gale ; in fact, every breeze for 

 eleven days past had freshened to one be- 

 fore it went down, and the change of wind 

 which succeeded rarely continued for above 

 three hours, but it blew a gale also. 



Our barometer had indicated every altera- 

 tion in the weather with the greatest precision, 

 and never was a weather glass more frequently 

 or more anxiously consulted, than was that of 



