a/rii. every falutary and ufeful plant, and that in a few years our
abode no longer difcernible, mutt return to its original
chaotic Hate.
A new paflage out to fea, to the northward, was discovered
on the 27 th ; and it being more convenient for our
purpofe, than that by which we entered, we weighed on
Thurfday i9. the 29th in the afternoon, in order to Hand up the bay towards
it. However, the wind falling calm, we were obliged
to come to again in 4 3 fathom, under the north fide of an
ifland which we named Longlfland, about two leagues from
Friday 30. our cove. At nine the next morning we proceeded with
a light breeze at weft, which with all our boats towing a-
head, was fcarce fufficient to ftem the current; for after
Struggling till fix in the evening, we had gained no more
than five miles, and anchored under the fame ifland, only
a hundred yards from the Ihore.
^ May. At daylight the next morning we attempted to work to
windward, having a gentle air down the bay, but the breeze
dying away, we loft ground, and came with the ftem fo
clofe to the Ihore, that our enfign-ftaflf was entangled in
the branches of trees, on a perpendicular rock, clofe to
which we could find no bottom. We were towed off without
receiving any damage, and dropt an anchor below the
place we fet out from, in a little cove on the north fide of
Long Ifland. Here we found two huts, and two fireplaces,
which fcemed to prove that the place had lately
been
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been inhabited. During our flay here, we discovered feve- 9 K
ral new birds and filh ; and indeed caught fome fifh which
are common to Europe, viz. the horfe-mackarel, the greater
dog-filh, and the fmooth hound*. The captain was taken
ill of a fever and violent pain in the groin, which terminated
in a rheumatic Swelling of the right foot, contradled
probably by wading too frequently in the water, and fitting
too long in the boat after it, without changing his
cloaths.
We were detained in this cove by calms, attended with Tuefday 4.
continual rains, till the 4th in the afternoon, when, af-
fifted by a light breeze at S. W. we entered the reach or
paflage leading out to Sea.- The breeze coming a-head juft
at that time obliged us to anchor again under the eaft
point of the entrance, before a Sandy beach. TheSe little
delays gave us opportunities of examining the fhores, from
whence we never failed to bring on board new. acqui-
fitions to the vegetable and animal fyftem. During night
we had heavy Squalls of wind, attended with rain, hail,
and Snow, and fome loud thunder claps. Day-light exhi- Wetlni':U,i’
bited to our view all the tops of the hills round us covered
with Snow. At two o’clock in the afternoon a light
breeze Sprung up at S. S. W. which carried us down the
paflage, though hot without the help of our boats, to the
laft point near the opening into the fea, where we anchor-
* Scomber trachurus, fqualus can is,. & fq. muftelus, Linn,
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