JOURNAL. 



in the evening. 



was 53° 38' 2f' We faw the high land near the Spurn, June. 



9th. About noon Flamborough Head bore N W b N 

 diftant about fix miles : we were by obfervation in lati- 

 tude 54° 4'' 54% longitude 0° 27' 15'^' E; which makes 

 Flamborough Head, in latitude 54° 9', longitude 0° 19' 

 1 5''^ E. In the afternoon we were ofF Scarborough, Al- 

 moft calm in the evening, 



loth. Anchored in the morning for the tide in Robin 

 Hood's Bay, with little wind at N W : worked up to 

 "Whitby Road next tide, and anchored there at four in 

 the afternoon, in fifteen fathom, with very little wind. 



iith. Calm in the morning; compleated our water, 

 live ftock and vegetables. At nine in the morning 

 longitude obferved by the watch 1° ^^' 30''' W; 

 Whitby Abbey bore S i W. Weighed with the wind 

 at S E, and fleered N E b N to get fo far into the mid- 

 channel as to make the wind fair Eafterly or Wefierly, 

 without being too near either fhore, before we were clear 

 of Shetland and the coaft of Norway. . 



1 2th. The wind at S E, and the fhip well advanced, 

 I ordered the allowance of liquor to be altered, ferving the 

 fhip's company one- fourth of their allowance in beer, and 

 the other three-fourths in brandy ; by which means the 



beer 



