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It was eight o'clock when we made fail, and we 

 run the whole night in hopes of difcovering Cape 

 Ray which lay upon our right, or the little ifland 

 of St. Paul, which we ought to leave on our left, 

 and which is almoft oppofite to Cape Ray, but night 

 came on without our having had fight of either. 

 We would then have been very glad that we had 

 made ufe of the time we had loft. What was moll 

 difagreeable in this, was, that towards midnight we 

 were overtaken by a ftorm, much fuch another as 

 that which we had met with on the great bank, and 

 as we had no room to doubt of our being near one 

 or other of the two lands between which our courfe 

 lay, we durft not take the benefit of the wind which 

 would have advanced us a good deal in our courfe. 

 Thus, in fpite of Chaviteau's advice, who under- 

 took to carry us thorough in fafety, we lay too. 

 At day- break we perceived Cape Ray, on which 

 the currents were driving us, and to compleat our 

 misfortune, we had not wind enough to get clear of 

 the coaft. We were almoft afhore, when about 

 half an hour paft five in the morning, a light breath 

 of wind at north- weft came in the nick of time to 

 our aftiftance ; we loft nothing by it, and we were 

 extricated from the danger in which we were. The 

 north-weft, after doing us this good office, would 

 have obliged us extremely had it made way for 

 fome other wind it did not, however, comply with 

 our wifhes, and for two whole days detained us in the 

 mouth of the gulph of St. Laurence. On the third 

 day we pafled between the ifland of St. Paul and 

 Cape St. Laurence, which is the moft- northerly 

 point of the IJle Royale, or ifland of Cape Breton. 

 This paffage is very narrow, and is never ventured 

 upon in foggy weather, becaufe the ifland of St. 

 Paul is fo fmall as to be eaflly hid by the mift. 

 That which lies between thus ifland and Cape Ray 

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