THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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At day-break, the next morning, the wind came more 1778. 
favourable, and we fleered for the channel between Mon- . May " . 
tagu Ifland and the Green Iflands, which is between two Tuefday ig. 
and three leagues broad, and from thirty-four to feventeen 
fathoms deep. We had but little wind all the day ; and, at 
eight o’clock in the evening, it was a dead calm ; when we 
anchored in twenty-one fathoms water, over a muddy bot¬ 
tom ; about two miles from the Ihore of Montagu’s Ifland. 
The calm continued till ten o’clock the next morning, when WedneC.20, 
it was fucceeded by a fmall breeze from the North, with 
which we weighed; and, by fix o’clock in the evening, we 
were again in the open fea, and found the coaft trending - 
Weft by South, as far as the eye could reach. 
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