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profitable trade might doubtlefs be carried on here by any ^ ^yf" ^• 

 perfons of flifficient enterorife to undertake it. »»—...—>-/ 



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Auguft. 



Towards midnight the gale fubfided, and at three ^"^•9- 

 o'clock in the morning of the lotha light breeze coming Thurfdayio. 

 ■on from the North North Eaft, we began to unmoor. At 

 five o'clock we weighed, and came to fail with a moderate 

 breeze at North Eaft. Soon after v/e got. under fail, the 

 wind began to haul round to the South Eaft ; and finding 

 that the ebb-tide fet us in towards the South point of the 

 'bay we had juft left (and which obtained the Name of 

 •Trading Bay\ it became neceflary to haul the wind clofe. 

 Juft as we got a-breaft of the point, we were taken by a 

 very rapid tide fetting to the South Weft (which was a di- 

 re&ion very different to what we exped:ed); and there 

 being little wind, and that little Southerly, we were not 

 able to get out of the tide, though a very little pufh would 

 have done it; for the South South Eaft tide line was juft 

 without us. Immediately afterwards I faw a dry fhoal bear- 

 ing South Weft, right in the diredion of the tide's courfe, 

 and we were driving for it at the rate of five miles an hour. 

 I prefently faw that there was no other method of avoid- 

 ing this flioal than by anchoring, and was glad to find we 

 had clear ground ; therefore anchored immediately in eleven 

 fathoms water, over a bottom of fine dark fand inclining; 

 to mud. The Queen Charlotte came-to at the fame time, 

 about half a mile to the Weft ward of us. 



The South Point of Trading Bay bore North 24° Weftj 

 four miles diftant; the Eaft point of an ifland to the South- 

 ward of us. South 5° Eaft, and the North Eaft point of 

 the ftioal South 14° Eaft, diftant a quarter of a mile. 



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