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A VOYAGE TO THE 



c ^x"^ ^* ^^^^ about four hours after we left the fhip, a breeze 



« -» fprung up from the South Weft, of which, agreeably to 



May.' my order, he took advantage, and proceeded thus far, 

 "^ *^ '■ where he anchored, in confequence ot the wind's tailing, 

 and the ebb tide making down. I found the (hips in a 

 very good fttuation in the bay, riding by their bowers in 

 twenty-one fathoms water over a muddy bottom, and 

 Readied with their hedges. The Southernmoft point of the 

 bay bore South South Weft half Weft three miles, the 

 North point North half Eaft one mile, and the bottom of 

 the bay Eaft by South one mile and a half diftant. Du- 

 ring the night we had light variable winds, with cahns by 

 Wednef. 2. turns ; but at nine o'clock the next morning a fine little 

 breeze fpringing up from the Weftward, we weighed-, and 

 ftood out of Hanning's Bay, and after clearing the North 

 point of it, ftood up the channel towards Prince William's 

 Sound. At noon I fent the whale-boat a-head, and in 

 fhore, to found, and the fliips run along fliore about one 

 mile and a half diftant from Montague Ifland, in forty fa- 

 thoms water; the whale-boat carried from thirty to thirty- 

 fi.ve fathoms water over a muddy bottom. The wind 

 growing fcant, I ordered the whale-boat a-head to tow 

 the fliip. However, at two o'clock a fine breeze came 

 on from the South South Weft, with which we continued 

 running up the channel, and had foundings from thirty- 

 five to tv/enty fathom? water over a muddy bottom, until 

 we drew near the Green Iflands, when the water fhoaled^ 

 and we frequently had feven and eight fathoms over a 

 rocky and fometimes a fhelly bottom. At fix o'clock we 

 pafi^d three beds of kelp, which we avoided, as it was 

 near them we had the fhoal water, and at this time it was 

 dead low v/ater. After runnino; two or three leagiies above- 



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