FeV/uiy. and ftood t0 the northward: in the afternoon, we found the
variation to be 16° 34 E. At eight in the evening, we tacked
and ftood to the fouthward, with the wind at weft.
T h S \ At n00n this day* our latitude by account was 47° 53',
y and our longitude from Cape Saunders 1 ° 8' E, We ftood
to the fouthward till half an hour paft three in the afternoon;
and then, being in latitude 48° S. and longitude 188° W. and
feeing no appearance of land, we tacked and flood to the
northward, having a large iwell from the S. W. by W. At
Friday 2. noon the next day, our latitude was 46° 42' S.; and Cape
Saunders bore N. 46 W. diftant eighty-fix miles. The fouth
Saturday 3. weft fwell continuing till the 3d, confirmed our opinion, that
there was no land in that quarter. At four in the afternoon,
we ftood to the weftward with all the fail we could make.
Sunday 4. In the morning of the 4th, we found the variation to be
160 16' E. This day we faw fome whales and feals, as we had
done feveral times after our having palled theftreight; but we
faw no leal while we were upon the coaft of Eahienomauwe.
We founded both in the night and this morning, but had no
giound with one hundred and fifty fathom. At noon, we
faw Cape Saunders bearing N. | W .; and our latitude by.ob-
fervation was 46° 3I'S. At half an hour paft one o’clock,
we faw land bearing W. by S. which we fleered for, and before
it was dark were within three or four miles of it .- during
the whole night we faw fires upon it, and at feven in
Monduy s. the morning were within about three leagues of the Ihore,
which appeared to be high, but level. At three o’clock in
the afternoon, we faw the land extending from N. E. by N.
to N. W. 7 N .; and foon after we difcovered fome low land,
which appeared like an illand, bearing S. f W. We continued
our courfe to the W. by S. and in two hours we faw
high land over the low land, extending to the fouthward as
far as S. W. by S. j but it did not appear to be joined to the
2 land
land to the northward, fo that there is; either water, a deep flg^
bay, or low land between them, ' f ’
At noon on the 6th, we were nearly in the fame fituation Tuufduy 6.
as at noon on the day before: in the afternoon we found the
variation, by feveral azimuths and the amplitude, to be
o 10' E. on the 7th at noon, we were in latitude 470 6' S. Wed«f. 7.
and had made twelve miles eafting during the laft twenty-
four hours: We ftood to the weftward the remainder of this
day, and all the next till ftin-fet, when the extreams of the TWdayS,
land bore from N. by E. to W. diftant about feven or eight
leagues: in this fituation our depth of water was fifty-five
fathom, and the variation by amplitude 160 29 E. The wind
now veered from the N. to the W. and as we had fine weather,
and moonlight, we kept Handing clofe upon the wind
to the S. W - all night. At four in the morning, we had fixty Friday 7.
fathom water; and at day-light, we difcovered under out
bow a ledge of rocks, extending from S. by W. to W. by S.
upon which the fea broke very high : they were not more
than three quarters of a mile diftant, yet we had five and
forty fathom water. As the wind was at N. W. we could not
now weather them, and as I was unwilling to run to leeward,
I tacked and made a trip to the eaftward; the wind
however foon after coming to the northward, enabled us to
get clear of all. Our foundings, while we were palling
within the ledge, were from thirty-five to forty-feven fathom
with a rocky bottom.
This ledge lies S. E. fix leagues from the fouthermoft part
o f the land, and S.E. by E. from fome remarkable hills
which ftand near the Ihore : about three leagues to the
northward of it, there is another ledge, which lies full three
leagues from the fhore, and on which the fea broke in a
dreadful furf. As we paffed thefe rocks to the north m the
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