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thefe fhoals on the Montague {ide, there appeared feveral ^ ^^^^ ^' 

 fmall iflands iituated near the fhore, and fome rocks, v».— >_-.y 

 which are covered at high water, lying to the Northward May." 

 of them, and about two miles from the fhore, ftretching * "* • 2* 

 along nearly as high as the upper end of Montague Illand. 

 However, night coming on, and there appearing a good 

 channel between the two Wefternmoft rocks, with a proba- 

 bility of finding good anchorage within them, and the 

 place very likely to be well inhabited, I was induced by 

 thefe circumflances to pufli in. Accordingly I fent the 

 whale-boat a- head to found, and we carried in from fe- 

 venteen to twelve fathoms water, until we got fome dif- 

 tance within the rocks. The water then, as we approached 

 tlie fhorcy began to fhoal very quick, and we came to 

 anchor in ten fathoms over a bottom of black fand. Pre- 

 fently afterwards, obferving a patch of kelp at a very 

 fmall diflance from the fliip, I fent a boat to found on it,^ 

 and they found only three fathoms water over a rocky bot- 

 tom. The fhoal was about a fhip's length from Eaft to 

 Weft, and nearly the Ikme breadth, with nine or ten fa- 

 thoms water all round it. As our preient ftation was by 

 no means a fafe one, I went in the whale-boat to found 

 beyond a point that lay to the Southward, round which 

 promifed good fhelter. Immediately on paffing the fhoal 

 juft mentioned, I found the w^ater to deepen as we rowed 

 towards the point from ten to twenty-tv/o fathoms over 

 a muddy bottom. After finding fafe anchorage for the. 

 fliips, I went on board, got under way directly, and run 

 in round the point, when we anchored in twenty-one fa- 

 thoms water over a muddy bottom, and moored with the 

 ftream anchor to the North Eaft in fourteen fiithoms. 

 When moored, a fmall ifiandj forming the Southernmoft part. 



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