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water deepens very much; and to the Weilward of that ^ ^^^ ^• 



longitude, and in the fame latitude, it fhoals, efpecially ' ' 



on drawing towards Cape Greville, or the Ifle Saint Her- April.' 

 mogenes. At three o'clock in the afternoon we faw a °" ^y ■ • 

 feal, and pafled feveral patches of the fea-leek, and pieces 

 of drift-wood, but got no foundings with 150 fathoms 

 of line. 



Our latitude at noon on the 17th, by double altitudes, Tuefdayi;. 

 was 57° 54-'; at the fame time the latitude, by account, 

 was 58° 25'' : this difference I paid no regard to; as there 

 was a probability that neither the watch or the altitudes 

 were to be depended on; but on fpeaking captain Dixon, 

 I found he had got an altitude by his time-piece when it 

 was very near noon, which gave the latitude 57° 50'; 

 fo that we mujR: have been fet by a current during the lafl: 

 twenty-four hours, thirty- five miles to the Southward. 

 Indeed the laft year, when we were about this coaft, we 

 found almoft a conftant current fetting to the Southward. 

 Towards evening, judging that we were not more than 

 ten leagues from the South Weft point of Montague Illand, 

 I hauled the wind to the Weft ward, under an eafy fail, 

 in order to wait for daylight to run in for the land ; but 

 in this I was difappointed ; for foon after midnight it be- 

 gan to rain, and the weather grew very thick. About 

 three o'clock in the morning the weather cleared a little ; wednef, 18, 

 and being very anxious to make the land, we bore away 

 with the wind at South by Weft, and fteered North Weft 

 by Weft. This however was of fliort continuance; for in 

 lefs than an hour the weather again became very thick, and 

 the wind began to blow very frefli at South ; on which we 

 hauled to the wind, and founded with T50 fathoms line, 



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