NO EMIGRATION. / 



Dec. 13. Hardly any wind of late, but a breeze sprung 

 up this morning, and soon rose into a gale, and at noon 

 blew violently from the southward. The foam flew like 

 fine drifted snow : the wind suddenly fell, and then chopped 

 round to the north-west, and blew more moderate, whan the 

 grandest sight I had ever seen presented itself: the tre 

 mendous billows meeting in all directions formed a thousand 

 fantastical shapes, sometimes running up into high peaks 

 or spires, then suddenly sinking into vast abysses ; or 

 two large waves meeting, rose into an immense ridge ; or 

 meeting with violence, dashed their spray in all directions, as 

 if in a rude, frolicsome play, while the vessel rose up their 

 mountain sides most majestically, receiving now and then a 

 salute from their gambols. Rain came on, and clouds were 

 seen flying in various directions ; the air remarkably warm. 

 Thermometer in the morning 70, and in the water at noon 

 74; and before night 79; remaining at 70 in the air. So 

 we are in the Great Gulph stream at last! 



Dec. 15. Through the Gulph as it is called, and the air 

 gets colder every hour. Shortened sail last night, and 

 sounded without finding bottom. Found, by an observation 

 taken at noon, we were in latitude 35: 19. Just north of 

 Cape Hattrass, a dangerous reef of sunken rocks, running 

 forty miles into the sea, on the coast of Carolina. Sounded 

 again in the evening, and found nineteen fathoms water. 

 The thermometer had sunk in the air to 45, and in the 

 water to 68. Water on soundings looks green, in the ocean 

 a dark blue ; this is universal, I am told. 



Dec. 16. Made land this morning opposite Roanoke 

 Inlet, North Carolina, near the borders of Virginia, seventy 

 miles too far south of the Chesapeak Bay ; ranged within 

 five miles of the shore all day, with a light breeze, and fine 

 clear cold air. Cannot see anything of the country, but 

 clay and sand banks, covered with pines and other trees ; 

 it is apparently a flat land along the sea-board ; vessels 

 sailing in different directions, and numbers of wild ducks 

 seen along the shore. 



Dec. 17. As no pilot came on board last evening, a lan 

 tern was hung U p in the night at the mast head, for a sig 

 nal, and at two o clock this morning one hove his boat 

 alongside and was taken on board, who proceeded imme 

 diately with the vessel round Cape Henry, into the Chesa 

 peak Bay ; the wind having got south-east at the same time, 



