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1824. ascertained. This simple method, however, sub- 

 Sept, jected us to great anxiety and inconvenience, as 

 the weather sometimes continued thick for two 

 or three days and nights, and it was then impos- 

 sible to run in any direction. Yet, by this con- 

 trivance alone were we obliged to steer for 

 above six weeks. 



The forenoon of this day was cloudy, and at 

 noon we stood into thirty-three fathoms at 

 about eight miles from the shore of South- 

 ampton, which is here considerably higher, 

 with a gradual ascent, than any other part of 

 it we had yet been off. The wind being scant, 

 and the ebb in our favour, we again stood out 

 for an offing, but soon after noon, oH the wea- 

 ther falling calm, and finding we neared the 

 shore, I brought up in thirty-three fathoms, 

 with the stream at five miles from the beach. 

 The American shore was at this time visible 

 from the mast-head at about thirty miles dis- 

 tant, and extending from north-west to w.n.w. 

 with a broad apparent opening, probably the 

 entrance of the " Wager River," between its 

 extreme points. 



I sent Messrs. Manico and Kendall in two 

 boats for water, and to make observations, and 

 while awaiting their return, we found theflood- 

 tide setting to the southward half a knot an 



