Augufi On the low land forming the upper . extremity of this arm, we faw
<---- ,---- > fome animals like wolves, but the lhallownefs o f the water prevented our
approaching near enough to fire at them with any probability of fuc-
cefs. From hence we returned by the weftern fhore, palling three or
four rocky iflets, and refted for the night about a league to the N. N.w.
o f our Ration at noon. During the night there fell a great quantity of
Saturday 3. rain, but towards the morning it in fome meafure abated, though the
weather Dill continued very gloomy and hazy; we had however no time
to fpare, and it becoming neceflary that we fliould proceed as far as
circumftances would admit, we flatted early, and kept along the continental
Ihore, which was much indented with fmall bays, and bounded
by innumerable rocks. We palled to the fouth o f us a duller of rocks
and illands, extending nearly in a fouth-weft and north-eaft direflion
about half a leagne. The outermoll lies nearly, fouth-eaft, about 2-|-
miles from the point feen the former morning, and Hated to be the
north point of the paflage leading towards the ocean. We arrived at
this point by noon, but the weather then becoming thick and hazy, attended
by heavy rain, and a ftrong gale from the fouth-weft, obliged us
to make for the firft place of fafety we could reach. Clofe round to the
- north-well of the above point, which, after the Right Honorable^Charles
James Fox, I called C a p e F o x , in latitude 54“ 45A',' longitude 229°!$2',
we retired to a very unfheltered cove, where we remained fome hours,
though by no means pleafantly circumftanced.' The weather in the afternoon
for a Ihort time bore a more favorable afpefl, and tempted us
again to proceed along the exterior coall, which now took nearly a well
direftion; but we had fcarcely advanced beyond the rocks that encumber
the fhore, when the gale from the fouthward increafed, attended with
a very heavy fwell, and thick mifty weather. This obliged us again to
feek fome place o f fecurity, which we very fortunately found about half
a league to the wellward of cape Fox, in a very commodious well fhel-
tered little cove ; which protefted us during the night from an excellively
heavy rain, and a very hard gale o f wind from' the fouth-eaft, which
brought from the ocean fo heavy a fea upon thefe Ihores, as to invade
even our fnug retreat.
About
About eight o’clock the next morning the weather again moderated,
and the wind favoring our purfuit, we again proceeded, although it
continued to rain and was otherways very unpleafant. We refumed our
examination along the coall, taking a rounding direction from the cove
n.w. by w . 4 miles, and then n. 15 w., near 7 miles further, to a pro-
jefting point on the fhore that obtained the name o f Foggy Point,
fituated in latitude 540 54-L', longitude 2290 11'.
The weather continued very unfavorable to our refearches; it permitted
us to diftinguifh the rocky fhores along which we palled only
from point to point; landing was not only difficult but very dangerous,
and could only be effefled in the chafms o f the rocks, near to the feveral
points on which it was indifpenfably neceflary to land, for «the pur-
pofe of afcertaining the pofitive direction o f the coall; which, by the
time we had reached Foggy point, not being vifible at the diftance of
fifty yards, we flopped to dine, having in the courfe o f the morning
been again excluded from the ocean. And though the thicknefs of
the weather had prevented our feeing by what means this had taken
place,'it was manifeft, that either land or Ihoals now intervened, as we
had intirely loft the oceanic fwell, that a few miles to the fouth had rolled
in, and broke with great violence on the Ihores.
By the time we had dined the fog fufficiently cleared away, to admit o f
our gaining a tolerably diftinft view of our fituation. It was on the
fouth point of a bay, in which were many fmall iflands and rocks. The
oppofite fide of the opening in which we had advanced during the fog,
was alfo indiftinftly feen to the wellward and north-well, compofed of
a country moderately elevated, covered with trees, and which feemed
much divided by water. After taking the neceflary angles, we proceeded
along the continent round the fhores o f the above bay; and in its
northern corner, our time was again unprofitably fpent in examining
a narrow opening about two miles in extent to the north-eaft. From
thence, through a labyrinth o f rocks and fhoals, we fleered over to the
north-wefternmoft and largeft o f thofe iflands lying from Foggy point,
N. '20 w. near a league, where we took up our abode for the night.
The wind blew ftrong attended with heavy rain, which towards day-light
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