NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 



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the latitude i° 4' South, and longitude from lunar ob- ^ ^^j^ ^• 



fervation 254° 34' Weft, and latitude of the South ex- ^- — ~ — » 



treme of faid clufter 1° 17' South, and longitude 254° 28' February. 



Weft. Thofe iftands feem to ftretch in a South by Eaft '^"^'''^- '" 



and North by Weft diredionof the fame fmali rocky iflands, . 

 but may lie a little out of that dirediion to the Eaftward 

 and Weftward, 



The 2 9th we had a fine fteady breeze at North North Eaft, Friday 29. 

 and fteered to South by Weft, four knots and a half per hour, 

 the depth of water varying as we increafed our diftance 

 from the clufter 7'hree Iflands, from twelve to twenty-one ' 

 fathoms. At four the Southernmoft of the clufter Three 

 Iflands bore North North Eaft three quarters Eaft, diftant 

 about eight leagues; this bearing and diftance, and Mount 

 Monopin South half Eaft, diftant about twelve leagues. 

 This bearing and diftance by me, places the Mount almoft 

 exactly in the fame fituation that captain King places it in. 

 We now altered the courfe to South South Weft and South 

 Weft by South, thinking before dark to get the Mount to 

 bear about South Eaft by Eaft, or Eaft South Eaft, diftant 

 fix or feven leagues, as, according to captain King's ac- 

 count, with that bearing and diftance, we fhould have been 

 clear to the Weftward of the fhoal called Frederic Hen- 

 dric, and then we could have hauled up for Banca 

 Straits; but we could not accomplifli this point before 

 dark, therefore I thought it moft prudent to ft and oft and 

 on during the night, and to enter the Straits in the 

 morning. At fix in the evening Monopin bore South 

 South Eaft, diftant about eight or nine leagues, and the 

 point of Banca that forms t]ie Eaftern entrance into the 

 Straits South three quarters Eaft, ten or eleven leagues ; the 

 10 iflands 



