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zj inches, althoogh the weather preferred a 

 very fine appearance. We were not free from 

 uneafinefs; for fo great a variation had never, 

 during our fray at anchor, failed to be followed 

 by tempeftuous winds. It is probable that they 

 blew at a diftance, but we felt none of their 

 effecls. 



A fire, kindled by the natives, was perceived 

 during the night. 



The tide having become favourable about 

 nine o'clock in the morning of the 17th, we 

 weighed with a breeze at north, and plied to 

 windward. 



The proximity of the coaft allowed, me to re- 

 mark, at the entrance of this channel, a free- 

 flone which had every appearance of that which 

 i-> met with at Port D'Entrecaiteaux. 



The fnow had increafed prodigioufly, during 

 the night, behind the fummit of the high moun- 

 tains. 



The mercury in the barometer had fallen to 

 27 inches 4 A lines, and the northerly wind 

 continued to be very faint. 



It was dark when we entered the ft rait, to 

 which was pven the name of Admiral D'Entre- 

 cafteaux. We anchored there about {even 

 o'clock in the evening, in twenty-two fathoms, 

 the bottom mud mixed with broken 



fhei: 



We 



