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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. Who could expert to find a paflage or ftrait of fuch ex- 
tent ? 
Monday 18. Having thus taken my refolution, next morning at three 
o’clock, we weighed, and with a gentle breeze at North, 
proceeded to the Southward down the inlet; and met with 
the fame broken ground, as on the preceding day. How¬ 
ever, we foon extricated ourfelves from it, and afterward 
never ftruck ground with a line of forty fathoms. Another 
palfage into this inlet was now difcovered, to the South Weft 
of that by which we came in, which enabled us to Ihorten 
our way out to fea. It is feparated from the other by 
an ifland, extending eighteen leagues in the dife&ion of 
North Eaft and South Weft ; to which I gave the name of 
Montagu Ifland* 
In this South Weft channel are feveral iflands. Thofe 
that lie in the entrance, next the open fea, are high and 
rocky. But thofe within are low ones ; and being entirely 
free from fnow, and covered with wood and verdure, on 
this account they were called Green Iflands . 
At two in the afternoon,, the wind veered to the South 
Weft, and South Weft by South, which reduced us to the 
necefiity of plying. I firft ftretched over to within two 
miles of the Eaftern Ihore, and tacked in fifty-three fathoms 
water. In Handing back to Montagu Ifland, we difcovered 
a ledge of rocks ; fome above, and others under water, ly¬ 
ing three miles within, or to the North of the Northern 
point of Green Iflands. Afterward, fome others were feen 
in the middle of the channel farther out than the iflands. 
Thefe rocks made unfafe plying in the night (though not 
very dark) ; and, for that reafon, we fpent it Handing off 
and on, under Montagu Ifland; for the depth of water 
was too great to come to an anchor. 
At 
