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tentions of going over land to thefe parts ; by this means 

 will be finally determined the long; fought North V/eft 

 paflage, with feme account of the interior parts of the Auguft. 

 country, to which we are yet entire ftrangers. That fuch "^ ^^^'' 

 an event may take place, muft be the wifh of every 

 lover of his country; and though the enterprife is fraught 

 with every danger that idea can fuggeft, yet what is it that 

 Britifh valour dares not attempt? 



On the 2 2d at daylight I fent Mr. Hayward out to fee wednaf.zz, 

 what wind prevailed in the palTage ; in the meantime un- 

 moored. About five o'clock Mr. Hayward returned; he 

 found the wind light and variable, with fome fwell in the 

 paffage. At feven o'clock a breeze fprung up about Weft 

 North Weft, with which we weighed, and came to fail, 

 and proceeded towards the entering of the Sound, which as 

 we approached, we found the wind very light and variable, 

 from Weft to Weft South Weft, with a confiderable fwell. 

 Heaving into the paflage about ten, the wind very faint, 

 and almoft dired:ly in, got the whale-boat and yaul a-head 

 to tow the ftiip. At eleven very near calm, making 

 very little progrefs ; but foon after a fteady moderate breeze 

 fprung up from the Weft, and juft about this time the 

 tide of ebb making, and the two boats a-head, we got 

 out apace, the Indians in their boats following us at fome 

 diftance, and on our getting out of the paffage, they 

 returned and went into the Sound. 



On the 23d about one o'clock we cleared the rocks Thurfdayzs, 

 which lie oft" the South point of the harbour, and ftood 

 away South, the wind at Weft South Weft. On the 24th Friday 24. 

 a breeze at South Eaft by South, with thick rainy v/ea.- 

 ther, with which we ftood to the South Weft by South, 



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