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qnence of a calm, always increafed; which feems to be caufed by 

 the prefTure of the atmofphere, loaded with fuch a quantity of 

 aqueous particles, as is always the cafe in a fog. 



Fourthly y The repeatedapproach of our fhip to the Antarctic circln, 

 was often announced by the fall of s n o w, sleet,, and hail : but 

 the firft year in 1772, we b^d fnow very early in the latitude of 51" 



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on December nth. In the courfe of the following years, we never 



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had fnow, except when we came into the neighbourhood of that 



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circle. However,, it muil be obferved,. this happened during the 



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height of fummer : what weather then muft not the winter-feafon 

 afford ? We were happy enough to meet with no land to the South j 

 which might have feduced us to Ipend a cold feafon fomewhere on 

 it, and to experience the rigors of aft Antardic winter.. 



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Fifthly J When we were going into Queen Charlotte's Sound, in the 

 year 1773, May 17th,; we found ourfelves nearly abreaft of Cape 

 Stephens., between three and four o'clock in the afternoon : the wind 

 abated gradually, and we had almofl a calm. It had rained, the day 



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before,, and blew hard all the night -, and in the morning the wea- 

 ther had been mild, pleafant, and warm, the thermometer ftanding 

 at 561". At a quarter after four o'clock, we obferved to the South- 



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outhern parts of the Cape. Immediately we faw a whitifli fpot 



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on the furface of the fea, from whence, a firing or column rofe up 



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