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tude, by obfervation, was 36° 41', longitude 142 0 6'. The 1779. 
point to the Northward, which was luppofed to be near the , oa ° bei \ 
Southernmoft land feen the day before, we conjectured to 
be Cape de Kennis, and the break to the Southward of this 
point, to be the mouth of the river on which the town of 
Gillima is faid to be lituated. The next Cape is probably 
that called in the Dutch charts Boomtje’s Point; and the 
Southernmoft, off which we were abreaft at noon, we fup- 
pofe to be near Low Point % and that we were at too great a 
diftance to fee the low land, in which it probably termi¬ 
nates, to the Eaft ward. 
In the afternoon, the wind veering round to the North 
Eaft, we flood to the Southward, at the dilfance of about 
eighteen leagues from the Ihore, trying for foundings, as 
we went along, but finding none with one hundred and fif¬ 
teen fathoms of line* At two the next morning, it fhifted Sunday 31, 
to Weft, attended with rain and lightning, and blowing- 
in heavy fqualls. During the courfe of the day, we had 
feveral fmall birds of a brown plumage, refembling lin¬ 
nets, flying about us, which had been forced off the land by 
the ftrong Wefterly gales ; but toward the evening, the 
wind coming to the North Weft, we fhaped our courfe, 
along with them, to Weft South Weft, in order to regain 
the coaft. In the morning of the ift of November, the November, 
wind again fhifted to South Eaft, and bringing with it fair Monda y *• 
weather, we got forty-two fets of diftances of the moon 
from the fun and ftars, with four different quadrants, each 
fet conftfting of fix obfervations ; thefe agreeing pretty 
nearly with each other, fix our fituation at noon the fame 
day, with great accuracy, in longitude 141 0 32', the latitude, 
by obfervation, was 35 0 17k We found an error of latitude, 
* Lags Hoed , or Low Point, is placed by Janfen in latitude 36 s 40'. 
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