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1778. chored; but the clearnefs of the weather tempted me to 
t,,, , v i heer to the Northward, farther up the great inlet, as being 
all in our way. As foon as we had pafled the North Weft 
point of the bay above mentioned, we found the coaft on 
. that ftde to turn fhort to the Eaftward. I did not follow it, 
but continued our courfe to the North, for a point of land 
which we faw in that direction. 
The natives who vifited us the preceding evening, came 
off again in the morning, in five or fix canoes; but not till 
we were under fail; and although they followed us for 
fome time, they could not get up with us. Before two in 
the afternoon, the bad weather returned again, with fo 
thick a haze, that we could fee no other land befides the 
point juft mentioned, which we reached at half paft four, 
and found it to be a fmall ifland, lying about two miles 
from the adjacent coaft, being a point of land, on the Eaft 
fide of which we difcovered a fine bay, or rather harbour. 
To this we plied up, under reefed topfails and courfes. The 
wind blew ftrong at South Eaft, and in exceffively hard 
fqualls, with rain. At intervals, we could fee land in every 
direction; but in general the weather was fo foggy, that we 
could fee none but the fhores of the bay into which we 
were plying. In pafting the ifland, the depth of water was 
twenty-fix fathoms, with a muddy bottom. Soon after, the 
depth increafed to fixty and feventy fathoms, a rocky bot¬ 
tom ; but in the entrance of the bay, the depth was from 
thirty to fix fathoms; the laft very near the fliore. At 
length, at eight o’clock, the violence of the fqualls obliged 
us to anchor in thirteen fathoms, before we had got fo far 
into the bay as I intended; but we thought ourfelves fortu¬ 
nate that we had already fufliciently fecured ourfelves at 
this hour; for the night was exceedingly ftormy. 
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