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I p. We weathered the Start Point by Noon, but 
could not make much way beyond it. 
20, We got into Plymouth Sound. The Cittade!, 
built upon a Rock, with large Counterfcarps and Bafti- 
ons, returned our Salute with nine Guns. Sir Thomas 
Allen with his Fleet flood to the Lizard, and came not 
to an Anchor. 
XI. Mifty weather. About eleven Clock Forenoon, 
and about fix in the Evening, we obferved the Vapours 
in great quantity afcend out of the Sea, foon covering 
the tops of the Mountains. Here we ftaid three days, 
taking in fome Provifions, ready prepared for us. 
On Sunday ihQ x'i^th oi AuguB we weighed out of 
Plymouth Sound, and made the Lizard ^ a Promontory 
in C<7r«H;tf/?, before Night : the Manacles^ feveral Rocks 
fo called, we difcerned very diftinftly^it being then low 
Ebb; as alfo the Lands end. The Wind blew frelh ,• and 
we obferved the Waves in the Night time, as if they had 
been liquid fire, but palifti. 
The Lizard bearing N. of us, we changed our Courfe, 
and taking leave of England, we failed into the Ocean. 
God of his Mercy fend us a happy Voyage. 
24. We run this day thirty nine Leagues by a Com* 
pute from our Log-line. 
X5'. We were full open with the Bay of Bijtay. Se- 
veral Gulls were hovering over the Surface of the Wa- 
ter to catch Fifti, which fwam by in vafl fholes, at a- 
bove fifty Leagues diftance from any Land. 
At other times I have feen feveral Birds floating up- 
on the Water, which being driven by fome Tempeft 
from the Coafls of Spain and Portugal , have been tired 
in their flight, and fo drowned. This happens fre- 
quently in the great Ocean, where they meet with no 
Land to fly to in feveral hundreds of Leagues ; and 
fometimes even in the y?/e<///^rrtf»^rff» , in the Mid-Seas 
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