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fonie low land, that we judged to be an ifland, lying under 1778. 
the Weftern fhore, extended from North half Weft, to North . Ma7 ' ^ 
Weft by North, diftant three or four leagues. 
The weather had now become fair and tolerably clear; 
fo that we could fee any land that might lie within our 
horizon; and in a North North Eaft diredtion no land, 
nor any thing to obftrudt our progrefs, was vilible. But, 
on each ftde, was a ridge of mountains, riling one behind 
another, without the leaft feparation. I judged it to be low 
water, by the fliore, about ten o’clock; but the ebb ran 
down till near noon. The ftrength of it was four knots 
and a half; and it fell, upon a perpendicular, ten feet three 
inches, that is, while we lay at anchor; fo that there is 
reafon to believe this was not the greateft fall. On the 
Eaftern fhore we now faw two columns of fmoke, a fure 
lign that there were inhabitants. 
At one in the afternoon we weighed, and plied up under 
double-reefed top-fails and courfes, having a very ftrong 
gale at North North Eaft, nearly right down the inlet. We 
ftretched over to the Weftern fhore, and fetched within two 
leagues of the South end of the low land, or ifland before 
mentioned, under which I intended to have taken lhelter 
till the gale fhould ceafe. But falling fuddenly into twelve 
fathoms water, from upward of forty, and feeing the' ap¬ 
pearance of a fhoal ahead, fpitting out from the low land, I 
tacked, and ftretched back to the Eaftward,; and anchored 
under that fhore in nineteen fathoms water, over a bottom 
of fmall pebble ftones. 
Between one and two in the morning of the 30th, we Saturday 30. 
weighed again with the firft of the flood, the gale having, 
by this time, quite abated, but ftill continuing contrary; 
fo that we plied up till near feven o’clock, when the tide 
being 
