i 9 * ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY ^January, 



been before taken to trie fettlement, and was felling at a lower price 

 than could be taken for that imported by this mip ; and tobacco had 

 formed a material article of the different inveftments in the Bri- 

 tannia. 



They learned by the Bellona, that his Majefty's (hip Gorgon, arrived 

 at Spithead on the 19th of June. In her pafTage, which (be Had made 

 by Cape Horn, on the 1 8th of February, being In the latitude of 

 5 1° 30' S. and longitude 34 0 7' W. variation 13 0 if' E. fbe fell in with 

 twenty-nine Iflands of Ice. When the mip reached within three of 

 four miles of the fir ft of thefe, they obferved one compact body, 

 without the fmalleft appearance of any opening, bearing from N. N. E. 

 to W. N. W. and which, with fome difficulty, being embayed*, they 

 were enabled to clear, by hauling the mip from N. to W. S. W. This 

 was done at ten in the forenoon ; they did not reach the extreme 

 weftern point of the ice until five in the evening ; and from the rate 

 at which the {nip failed, from her coming up with the firft ifland of 

 ice, until fhe cleared the north-w r eft point of the field above men- 

 tioned, it was computed that me had run full twenty leagues. 



It muft be remarked, that the Sirius, in the month of December 

 1788, faw feveral iflands of ice in nearly the fame latitude and lon- 

 gitude. 



At the Cape of Good Hope, Captain Parker had met with Captain 

 Edwards of the Pandora, who delivered to him Mary, the widow of 

 Bryant, (who efcaped to Timor in the fifhing cutter,) with one of the 

 children, and only four of the male convi&s who accompanied Bryant 

 in his flight. Bryant died at Batavia, with the other child, and two 

 of his companions. On their arrival in England, the ftory of their 

 fufferings in the boat excited much companion 5 and, on being brought 

 up to the bar of the Old Bailey, they were ordered by the Court to 

 remain in Newgate until the period of their original fentence of trans- 

 portation mould expire, there to finifti their unfuccefsful attempts to 

 regain their liberty* 



* When near this great body of rce* the thermometer was as low as 'thirty-fix degrees and 

 it rofe from that point, as lie drew off, to forty degrees^ 



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