98 MARITIME OBSERVATIONS. 
any fhift or increafe of wind) fuch as is generally occafioned 
by currents, and the next day we found we were 30 miles 
to the Southward of the reckoning. This current conti- 
nued till the 22d of O&tober, having then arrived in lat. 37: 
long. 13. 30. W. It fet S. by W. 5 W. 1 miles 
per hour. 
Having a fair wind, and a good obfervation every day, 
and alfo good aftronomical obfervations for determining the 
longitude, we had the greateft reafon to depend on the 
authenticity of the above. 
No. IV.. 
Extradt from yi “fot of an Officer on board the Brit: Mb 
Shipof War, Liverpool. Fuly, Auguft and September, 1775. 
HE bank from Cape Cod extends almoft as far as 
Cape Sable, where it joins the banks of Nova Scotia 
decpening gradually from 20 to 50.0r 55 fathoms, which 
depth there is in lat. 43. In crofling the bank between lat. 
ar. 44. and lat. 43. the bottom. is very remarkable; on 
the outfide it is fine fand, thoaling gradually for feveral 
feagues on the middle of the bank, it is coarfe fand or thin- 
gle with pebble ftones, on the infide it is muddy with 
pieces ‘of fhells, and agin nie Si from 45 or 48 to 
150 or 160 fathomse owns palit 
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No. V.. 
I lat. 44. 54. N. long. 53.19. W. on board the Britifh 
Packet Chefterfield, Capt. Schuyler. Fuly 105.179. 
1H E Gaptain caught a codfith, andina fat minutes 
after it was opened and gutted, I put ithe: thermo- 
meter into. its belly, the inftrument markedy39 when in air 
it 
