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on this occasion we once more remarked what a good sailer the 
Pacific is, for when we discovered the brig, she was far ahead of 
us, and although she had all her sails set, we not only soon over¬ 
took her, but soon left her far behind us. We did not approach 
her sufficiently near to speak. During this damp weather, I 
acknowledged the superior construction of the Pacific to that 
of the Pallas; whilst in the latter the moisture penetrated through¬ 
out, and exerted its noxious influence on a variety of articles 
liable to rot, and spread through the whole vessel an insup¬ 
portable foul smell; every thing in the Pacific was dry, and 
in our cabin we had not suffered at all from the existing hu¬ 
midity. 
The night of the 8th and 9th of July I passed very unpleasant¬ 
ly, owing to the.rolling of the vessel; I was every moment on the 
point of falling out of my bed, and it was only towards six o’clock 
in the morning that I began to enjoy some repose. The day 
brought with it clear weather. The wind had been so favoura¬ 
ble for the last twenty-four hours, that we found ourselves in la- • 
titude 48° 40 # , and longitude 19° 12'. In the afternoon the wind 
became variable and blew from various quarters; we experienced 
several squalls accompanied by showers of rain. At last it set in 
strong from the north-west, and drove us forward at the rate of 
eleven miles per hour. Towards evening we came up with a 
vessel bound from Savannah for Liverpool, spoke her, and gave 
her our longitude. Their reckoning differed from ours, as they 
believed themselves to be in longitude 16°. The sea ran rather 
high while we were in the neighbourhood of this vessel, so that 
we could not have a long talk with her, nor even rightly under¬ 
stand her name. We left her far behind us. 
On the 10th of July, the wind continued favourable, there was 
a heavy swell of the sea, and much motion in the vessel. The 
weather clearing off towards noon, we were enabled to make ex¬ 
act observations, which we could not do for some days before, on 
account of the cloudy weather. It appeared, that we had made 
a small mistake in our computation of the longitude, for by the 
precise observation of this day, we found our latitude to be fifty 
degrees twenty-two minutes, and our longitude seventeen de¬ 
grees. We saw already several birds, a proof that we were ap¬ 
proaching land; we continually saw petrels and mother Carey’s 
chickens. The more we sailed northwards, we felt the air be¬ 
coming cooler, which created in me no pleasant sensation. 
The 11th of July was rather windy and rainy; in other res¬ 
pects matters remained in statu quo. Latitude fifty degrees thirty 
minutes, longitude twelve degrees fifty-five minutes. We hoped 
to find ourselves on the next day on the Nymph bank, which 
stretches from the south of Ireland, far into the sea, nor were we 
