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times after our having paffed the ft r eight ; but wc faw no feal 
while we were upon the coaft of Eahienomauwe. Wc foun- 
ded both in the night and this morning, but had no ground 
with one hundred and fifty fathom. At noon, we faw Cape 
Saunders bearing N. ~ W. ; and our latitude by oblervation 
was 46 : 3 1 S. At half an hour paft one o’clock, we faw 
land bearing W. by S. which we fleered for, and before it was 
dark were within three or four miles of it : during the whole 
night we faw fires upon it, and at feven in the morning were 
within about three leagues of the fhore, which appeared to be 
high, but level. At three o’clock in the afternoon we faw 
the land extending from N. E. by N. to N. W. \ N. ; and 
foon after we difeovered fome low land, which appeared like 
an ifland, bearing S. \ W, We continued our courfe to the 
W. by S. and in two hours we faw high land over the low 
land, extending to the fouthward as far as S, W. by S. ; but it: 
did not appear to be joined to the land to the northward, To 
that there is either water, a deep bay, or low land between 
them. 
At noon on the 6th, we were nearly in the fame fituation as 
at noon on the day before : in the afternoon we found the va- 
riation by feveral azimuths and the amplitude, to be 13:10 
E. On the 7th at noon, we were in latitude 47 : 6 S. and had 
made twelve miles eafting during the lafl twenty-four hours. 
We flood to the weflward the remainder of this day, and all the 
next till fun-fet, when the extremes of the land bore from N. 
by E to W. diflant about feven or eight leagues : in this Situa- 
tion our depth of water was fifty-five fathom, and the variation, 
by amplitude 16 : 29 E. The wind now veered from the N. to 
the W. and as we had fine weather, and moonlight, we kept 
ftanding clofe upon the wind to the S. W. all night. At four 
in the morning, we had fixty fathom water ; and at day- 
light, we difeovered under our bow a ledge of rocks, extend- 
ing from S. by W. to W. by S. upon which the fea broke very 
high : they were not more than three quarters of a mile diflant, 
yet we had five and forty -fathom water. As the Wind was at * 
N. W. we could not now weather them, and as I was unwil- 
ling to run to leeward, I tacked and made a trip to the eafl- 
ward ; the wind however loon after coming to the northward, 
enabled us to get clear of all. Our foundings, while we were 
palling within the ledge, were froth thirty-five to forty-feven 
fathom, with a rocky bottom. 
This ledge lies S. E. fix leagues from the fouthermofl part 
of the land, and S. E. by E. from fome remarkable hills 
which ftand near the fhore : about three leagues to the north- 
ward of it, there is another ledge, which lies full three leagues 
2rom the fhore, and on which the fea broke in a dreadful iurf. 
As we puffed thefe rocks to the north in the night, and dif- 
ifccvercd the others under our bow at break of day, it is mani- 
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