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A VOYAGE TO 
[North Coast. 
December. ^ ur progress next morning was very little, until the sea breeze 
Thursday 9. set in; and we were then obliged, from the more northern trending 
of the coast, to keep up to the wind. The soundings varied between 
6 and 3 fathoms ; and at five in the evening diminished rather sud- 
denly to on a rocky bottom, two or three miles from the land. 
We then tacked, and worked to windward till dark, when the anchor 
was dropped in 4^ fathoms upon rocky ground covered with mud ; 
but as there was little wind and no sea, the anchor held. The 
observed latitude here, from the moon, was 16 0 28', and longitude 
by time keeper 1 38° 6 V east. 
Friday io. During the night, the wind came as usual off the land ; and ki 
the morning we lay up N. by W., nearly parallel to the then direc- 
tion of the coast. At ten, the sea breeze set in at N. by W.; and 
from that time until evening we worked to windward, tacking from 
the shore when the depth diminished to 9~ fathoms, and stretching 
in again when it increased to 6 ; the distances from the land being 
in miles, as nearly as might be what the depth was in fathoms, a 
coincidence which had been observed in some parts on the east side 
of the Gulph. At sunset, a hillock upon a projecting point bore 
N. 73 0 W. four miles, and behind it was a small opening which 
answered in situation to the River Van Alphen of the old chart ; our 
last tack was then made from the shore; and at dusk we anchored in 
4 fathoms, coarse sand and gravel. Variation from amplitude, with 
the head W. by N., 4 0 45', or corrected to the meridian, 2 0 38' east, 
nearly as on the 8th. 
Saturday 11. At daylight, we steered northward with a land wind; and 
when the sea breeze came, stretched W. S. W. towards the shore. 
At noon, 
Latitude observed, - - „ i 6 °u±- f 
Longitude by time keeper, - - 137 53 
The extremes of the land bore - S. 21” E. to 8 (j W. 
Nearest part, dist. 3 miles, - - S. 35 W. 
Small opening, supposed R. Van Alphen, - S. 3 W. 
