THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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the net after it with the iron part dragging along the hot- 1779. 
tom. We were forry to find the fea covered with the t NoTCmber ; 
wrecks of boats that had been loft, as we conjectured, in 
the late boifterous weather. At noon, we were in latitude, 
by obfervation, 22 0 ft, having run one hundred and ten 
miles upon a North Weft courfe fince the preceding noon. 
Being now nearly in the latitude of the Lema Iflands, we 
bore away Weft by North, and after running twenty-two 
miles, faw one of them nine or ten leagues to the Weft ward. 
At ftx, the extremes of the iflands in fight bore North North 
Weft half Weft, and Weft North Weft half Weft; diftant 
from the neareft four or five leagues; the depth of water 
twenty-two fathoms, over a {oft muddy bottom. We now 
fhortened fail, and kept upon our tacks for the night. By 
Mr. Bayly’s time-keeper, the Grand Lema bore from the 
Prata Ifland, North 6o° Weft, one hundred and fifty-three 
miles; and by our run, North 57 0 Weft, one hundred and 
forty-fix miles. 
In the morning of the 30th, we ran along the Lema Tuefday 3Q . 
Ifles, which, like all the other iflands on this coaft, are 
without wood, and, as far as we could obferve, without 
cultivation.. At feven o’clock, we had precifely the fame 
view of thefe iflands, as is reprefented in a plate of Lord 
Anfon’s voyage. At nine o’clock, a Chinefe boat, which 
had been before with the Refolution, came along-fide, and 
wanted to put on board us a pilot, which however we declin¬ 
ed, as it was our bufinefs to follow our confort. We foon 
after palled the rock marked R, in Lord Anfon’s Plate; but, 
inftead of hauling up to the Northward of the grand La- 
drone Ifland, as was done in the Centurion, we proceeded 
to leeward. 
It is hardly neceflary to caution the mariner not to 
take 
