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c HA P. Qjp them men^ the reft women and children. On getting 



w > into the entrance of the paffage, which is about a mile 



Augufi. acrofs, we deepened the water to thirty fathoms over a 

 Monday 6. ^g^j-jjy bottom, the barren rocks juft mentioned forming 

 the South fide; the Northern fide is low land, forming 

 itfelf into feveral fmall bays, from whofe points are 

 breakers at no great diftance. About half a mile within 

 the barren rocks we had thirty fathoms water over a rocky 

 bottom, which depth and bottom we carried at leaft a mile 

 farther, fleering North Eaft by Eaft, which is nearly the 

 courfe into the harbour. The paffage fo far is nearly a mile 

 acrofs, with bold rocky fhores on each fide. Prefently after- 

 wards we fhoaled the water to ten fathoms, being then in) 

 the narrowefl part of the channel, which in that fituation is 

 not more than half a mile acrofs, formed on the Northern 

 fide by fome bold rocks, and to the Southward by a bluff 

 point of land ; to the Eaftward ot which, a fmall dif- 

 tance from the fhore, are fome rocks that juft fhew them- 

 felves above water. Immediately on pafTing thefe rocks 

 we deepened the water very quick, having from thirty to 

 forty fathoms; and a moft fpacious and excellent harbour 

 opened itfelf to our view, trending to the North Weft and 

 South Eaft, and running deep into the Northward, with a 

 number oi fmall iftands fcattered about. We run up to- 

 wards the North Weft part of the harbour, and after 

 pafUng a fmall ifland near the North fhore covered with 

 trees, v/e anchored about noon with the fmiU bower in 

 thirty-one fathoms water over a muddy bottom, and 

 moored with the beft bower to the Eaftward, entirely- 

 land-locked; the rocks lying in the inner part of the 

 pafTage, juft fhut in with the fmall ifland already men- 

 tioned, and bearing South three or four miles diflant. 



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