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A VOYAGE TO 
177?. A few hours after, the fog having cleared away a little, 
i Ju ° e * it appeared that we had efcaped very imminent danger. 
We found ourfelves three quarters of a mile from the North 
Eaft lide of an illand, which extended from South by Weft 
half Weft, to North by Eaft half Eaft, each extreme about 
a league diftant. Two elevated rocks, the one bearing 
South by Eaft, and the other Eaft by South, were about half 
a league each from us, and about the fame diftance from each 
other. There were feveral breakers about them; and yet 
Providence had, in the dark, conducted the lliips through, 
between thefe rocks, which I fhould not have ventured in a 
clear day, and to fuch an anchoring-place, that I could not 
have chofen a better. 
Finding ourfelves fo near land, I fent a boat to examine 
what it produced. In the afternoon Ihe returned; and the 
officer, who commanded her, reported, that it produced 
fome tolerably good grafs, and feveral other fmall plants; 
one of which was like purflain, and eat very well, either in 
foups, or as a fallad.. There was no appearance of fhrubs 
or trees; but on the beach were a few pieces of drift-wood. 
It was judged to be low water between ten and eleven 
o’clock; and we found, where we lay at anchor, that the 
flood-tide came from the Eaft or South Eaft. 
In the night, the wind blew frefh at South; but was more 
moderate toward the morning, and the fog partly dif- 
Saturday 27. per fed. Having weighed at feven o’clock, we fteered to 
the Northward, between the illand under which we had 
anchored, and another fmall one near it. The channel is 
not above a mile broad; and before we were through it, 
the wind failed, and we were obliged to anchor in thirty- 
four fathoms water. We had now land in every direction * 
That to the South, extended to the South Weft, in a ridge 
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