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than in any I had before met with. Our boats return¬ 
ing from founding feemed to alarm them, fo that they 
all left us fooner than probably they would otherwife have 
done. 
It was the 22d in the evening before we got clear of thefe 
fhoals, and then I durft not venture to fleer to the Weft ward 
in the night, but fpent it off Cape Newenham; and at day¬ 
break, next morning, fleered to the North Weft, ordering 
the Difcovery to lead. Before we had run two leagues, our 
depth of water decreafed to fix fathoms. Fearing, if we 
continued this courfe, that we fhould find lefs and lefs wa¬ 
ter, I hauled to the Southward ; the wind being at Eaft, a 
frefh breeze. This courfe brought us gradually into eigh¬ 
teen fathoms, and, having that depth, I ventured to fleer 
a little Wefterly ; and afterward Weft, when we at laft found 
twenty-fix fathoms water. 
On the 24th at noon we were, by obfervation, in the la¬ 
titude of 58° 7', and in the longitude of 194° 22'. Three 
leagues to the Weftward of this ftation we had twenty-eight 
fathoms water, and then fleered Weft North Weft, the wa¬ 
ter gradually deepening to thirty-four fathoms. I would 
have fleered more Northerly, but the wind having veered 
in that direction, I could not. 
Wednef. 22. 
Thurfday 23, 
Friday 24. 
The 25th in the evening, having a very thick fog, and Saturday 25. 
but little wind, we dropped anchor in thirty fathoms water. 
Our latitude was now 58° 29', and our longitude 191 0 37'. 
At fix, the next morning, the weather clearing up a little, Sunday 26. 
we weighed, and, with a fmall breeze at Eaft, fteered North; 
our foundings being from twenty-eight to twenty-five fa¬ 
thoms. After running nine leagues upon this courfe, the 
wind returned back to the North, which obliged us to fleer 
more Wefterly* 
The 
