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A VOYAGE TO 
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June. 
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Tuefday 9. 
Wednef. 10, 
Thurfday 11. 
Friday iz. 
from Gape St. Hermogenes, in the diredlion of South, 
17 0 Weft. 
The three following days we had almoft conftant mifty 
weather, with drizzling rain; fo that we feldom had a fight 
of the coaft. The wind was South Eaft by South, and South 
South Eaft, a gentle breeze, and the air raw and cold. 
With this wind and weather, w r e continued to ply up the 
coaft, making boards of fix or eight leagues each. The 
depth of water was from thirty to fifty-five fathoms, over 
a coarfe, black fandy bottom. 
The fog clearing up, with the change of the wind to 
South Weft, in the evening of the 12th, we had a fight of 
the land bearing Weft, twelve leagues diftant. We flood 
in for it early next morning. At noon we were not above 
three miles from it; an elevated point, which obtained the 
name of Cape Barnabas , lying in the latitude of 57 0 13' bore 
North North Eaft half Eaft, ten miles diftant; and the coaft 
extended from North, 42 0 Eaft, to Weft South Weft. The 
North Eaft extreme was loft in a haze; but the point to the 
South Weft, whofe elevated fummit terminated in two 
round hills, on that account was called Two-beaded Point . 
This part of the coaft, in which are feveral fmall bays, is 
compofed of high hills and deep vallies; and in fome places 
we could fee the tops of other hills, beyond thofe that form 
the coaft; which was but little encumbered with fnow, but 
had a very barren appearance. Not a tree or bufh was to 
be feen upon it; and, in general, it had a brownifh hue, 
probably the effe£t of a mofty covering. 
I continued to ply to the South Weft by Weft, as the coaft 
trended; and, at fix in the evening, being midway between 
Cape Barnabas and Two-headed Point, and two leagues 
from the fhore, the depth of water was fixty-two fathoms. 
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