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428 A VOYAGE TO 
1778. On the morning of the 9th, with a breeze at North Weft, 
we fteered Eaft by North, to get nearer the coaft. At noon, 
Thurfday 9. we were in the latitude of 57 0 49", and in the longitude of 
2°i° 33', and about two leagues from the land, which ex¬ 
tended from South by Eaft to Eaft North Eaft ; being all a 
low coaft, with points fhooting out in fome places, which, 
from the deck, appeared like iflands; but, from the maft- 
head, low land was feen to connect them. In this fitua- 
tion, the depth of water was fifteen fathoms, the bottom a 
fine black fand. 
As we had advanced to the North Eaft, we had found the 
depth of water gradually decreafing, and the coaft trend¬ 
ing more and more Northerly. But the ridge of mountains 
behind it, continued to lie in the fame direction as thofe 
more Wefterly ; fo that the extent of the low land, between 
the foot of the mountains and the fea coaft, infenfibly 
increafed. Both high and low grounds were perfectly 
deftitute of wood; but feemed to be covered with a green 
turf, except the mountains, which were covered with fnow. 
Continuing to fleer along the coaft, with a gentle breeze 
Wefterly, the water gradually fhoaled from fifteen to ten 
fathoms, though we were at the diftance of eight or ten 
miles from the fhore. At eight in the evening, an ele¬ 
vated mountain, which had been in fight for fome time, 
bore South Eaft by Eaft, twenty-one leagues diftant. Some 
other mountains, belonging to the fame chain, and much 
farther diftant, bore Eaft 3 0 North. The coaft extended 
as far as North Eaft half North, where it feemed to ter¬ 
minate in a point, beyond which we hoped and expecfted, 
that it would take a more Eafterly direction. But foon after, 
we difcovered low land, extending from behind this point, 
as far as North Weft by Weft, where it was loft in the 
horizon; 
