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ifland, we found a great fwell from the 

 weftward ; we rowed to the bottom of 

 a very large bay, which was to the 

 northward of us, the land very low, and 

 we were in hopes of finding fome inlet 

 through, but did not ; fo kept along 

 fhore to the weftward. This part, which 

 I take to be above fifty leagues from 

 Wager Ifland, is the very bottom of the 

 large bay it lays in. Here was the only 

 paflage to be found, which (if we could 

 by any means have got information of 

 it) would have faved us much fruitlefs 

 labour. Of this paflage I fhall have oc- 

 cafion to fay more hereafter. 



Having at this time an ofF-fiiore wind, 

 we kept the land clofe on board, till we 

 came to a head land : it was near night 

 before v^e got a-breaft of the head-land, 

 and opening it difcovered a very large 

 bay to the northward, and another head- 

 land to the weftward, at a great diftance. 

 \ye endeavoured to cut fhort our paflage 



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