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CHAP, the wind, with a reef in the fore-fail, the fea running 

 I mountains high, and conftantly hreaking over the veffel 

 — pumps going day and night ; foon after which we 

 fahited the Alarm frigate from Holland, which compli- 

 ment thev returned. 



. At length, the weather becoming fair, we were carried 

 within foundings, on the 19th, when we hove the lead in 

 ninety fathom water; but the wind fhifting to the N. E. 

 with foul weather, we beat about in the chops of the 

 Channel, till the morning of the 21ft, when at half paft 

 one a fignal gun was fired for the other veiTel, that 

 we faw the light off Scilly ; and at four o'clock P. M. got 

 the pilot on board. 



Having been becalmed two days off Dover, it was the 

 27th before we firft faw the Dutch coaft : here we purchafed 

 , Jome excellent fifli from a Schevelin boat, with which we 

 entertained the whole crew, though during this fea voyage 

 no fliip's company could be better provided. ' 



Having kej^t off fhore during the night, we at laft 

 doubled Keykduyn and the Helder ; and on the 28th, at 

 three o'clock P. M. both fliips, under a difcharge of nine 

 guns, dropped anchor in the Texel roads. 



On the 30th, having paffed the fmall iiland of Urk, in 

 the Zuyder Sea, which is the only rock in the province of 

 Holland, both veffels running before the wind with a 

 fine breeze, premeditatedly fi:uck fall upon the Pampus — 

 this is a large bank of foft mire, covered with fhoal water, 

 and not far from Amfterdam, which it naturally protects 



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