THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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we ftood to the North Eaft till four o’clock next morning, 1778. 
when the wind veering to the Eaftward, we tacked, and t JuIy ‘ _ 
ftood to the North Weft. Soon after the wind came to Friday 31. 
South Eaft; and we fteered North Eaft by North; which 
courfe we continued, with foundings from thirty-five to Auguft 
twenty fathoms, till next day at noon. At this time we Saturday 1. 
were in the latitude of 6o° 58", and in the longitude of 191 0 . 
The wind now veering to North Eaft, I firft made a ftretch 
of ten leagues to the North Weft; and then, feeing no 
land in that direction, I ftood back to the Eaftward about 
fifteen leagues, and met with nothing but pieces of drift¬ 
wood. The foundings were from twenty-two to nineteen 
fathoms. 
Variable, light winds, with fhowers of rain, prevailed all 
the 2d ; but fixing in the South Eaft quarter, in the morn- Sunday 2 . 
ing of the 3d, we refumed our courfe to the Northward. Monday 3 . 
At noon we were, by obfervation, in the latitude of 62° 34/, 
our longitude was 192 0 ; and our depth of water fixteen fa¬ 
thoms. 
Mr. Anderfon, my furgeon, who had been lingering un¬ 
der a confumption for more than twelve months, expired 
between three and four this afternoon. He was a fenfible 
young man, an agreeable companion, well Ikilled in his 
own profelfion ; and had acquired confiderable knowledge 
in other branches of fcience. The reader of this Journal 
will have obferved how ufeful an aififtant I had found him 
in the courfe of the voyage ; and had it pleafed God to have 
fpared his life, the Public, I make no doubt, might have re¬ 
ceived from him fuch communications, on various parts of 
the natural hiftory of the feveral places we vifited, as would 
have abundantly fhewn, that he was not unworthy of this 
10 commendation. 
