176r- flumps o f trees at the bottom o f the river. We then went
1Fl:braary' , a fhore, where we faw many wigwams o f the natives, and
feveral o f their dogs, who, as foon as we came in fight, ran
away. We alfo faw fome oftriches, but they were beyond
the reach o f our pieces: we gathered mufcles, limpets, fea-
eggs, celery, and nettles in great abundance. About three
miles up this river, on the weft fide, between Mount Mifery
and another mountain of a ftupendous height, there is a cataract
which has a very ftriking appearance: it is precipitated
from an elevation o f above four hundred yards ; h a lf the
way it rolls over a very fteep declivity, and the other half is
a perpendicular fall. The found o f this cataratt is not lefs
awful than the fight.
Saturday 14. In this place, contrary winds detained us till 10 o’clock in
the morning o f Saturday the 14th, when we weighed, and
in ha lf an hour the current fet the fhip towards Bachelor’s
River: we then put her in flays, and while Ihe was coming
about, which Ihe was long in doing, we drove over a fhoal
where we had little more than 16 feet water with rocky
ground ; fo that our danger was very great, for the fhip
drew 16 feet 9 inches aft, and 15 feet one inch forward:
as foon as the fhip gathered way, we happily deepened into
three fathom; within two cables’ length we had five, and in
a very fhort time we got into deepwater. We continued
plying to windward till four o’clock in the afternoon, and
then finding that we had loft ground, we returned to our
ftation, and again anchored in York road.
Tuefday 17. Here we remained till five o’clock in the morning o f the
17th, when we weighed, and towed out of the road. At
nine, though we had a fine breeze at weft, the fhip was carried
with great violence by a current towards the fouth fhore:
the boats were all towing a-head, and the fails afleep, yet we
drove
drove fo clofe to . the rock, that the oars o f the boats were 1767-
, , February«
entangled in the weeds. In this manner we were hurried — __ t
along near three quarters of an hour, expecting every mo- Tue a>’ '7'
ment to be dafhed to pieces again!! the cliff, from which we
were feldom farther than a Ihip’s length, and very often not
half fo much. We founded on both fideS, and found that
next the fhore we had from 14 to ao fathom, and on the
other fide o f the fhip no bottom: as all. our efforts were ineffectual,
we refigned ourfelves to our fate, and waited the
eventinaftate o f fufpenfe very little different from defpair.
At length, however, we opened Saint David’s Sound, and a
current that rufhed out o f it fet us into the mid-channel.
During all this time the Swallow was on the north fhore, and
confequently could know nothing o f our danger till it was
paft. We now fent the boats out to look for an anchoring
place ; and at noon Cape Quod bore N. N. E. a#d Saint David’s
head S. E.
About one o’clock the boats returned, having found an
anchoring place in a fmall bay, to which we gave the name
o f Butler’s bay, it having been difcovered by Mr. Butler one
o f the mates. It lies to the weft o f Rider’s bay on the fouth
fhore o f the Streight, which is here about two miles wide.
We ran in w ith the tide which fet fall to the weftward, and
anchored in 16 fathom water. The extreams of the bay
from W. by N. to N. 4 W. are about a quarter o f a mile afun-
de r; a fmall rivulet, at the diftance of fomewhat lefs than
two cables’ length, bore S. 4 W. and Cape Quod N. at the
diftance o f four miles. At this time the Swallow was at anchor
in Ifland bay on the north fhore, at about fix miles
diftance.
I now fent all the boats out to found round the fhip and
in the neighbouring bays; and they returned with an account