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>ner N^xt »^orniftg» at two O’clock, we weighed and flood
mS'le" roun<^ ^le F°rel?nd; and when it bore North, allowing for
the variation of the com pafs, the watch gave id 24' Eaft
longitude, 'which, reduced to the Foreland, will be T 2 1'
■Eaft.. Lunar observations made the preceding evening,
fixed it at 1° 20' Eaft. At eight o’clock the fame morning,
we anchored in the Downs. Two boats had been built
for us at Deal, and I immediately Tent on ihore Tor them.
I was told that ’many people :had aflembled there to fee
Omai; but, to their great disappointment, he did not land.
Having received the boats on board, and a light breeze at
South South Eaft Tpringing up, we got under fail the next
Timrfdayz?. day at two o’clock in the afternoon. But the breeze foon
died away, and we were obliged to anchor again till :ten
o’clock at night. We then weighed, with the windat:Eaft,
and proceeded down the channel.
Sunday 30, On the 3°th> at three o’clock in the afternoon, we anchored
in Plymouth Sound, where the Difcovery had arrived
only three days before. I faluted Admiral Amherft, whofe
flag was flying on board the Ocean, with thirteen guns, and
he returned the compliment with eleven.
It was the firft objeft of our care, on arriving at Plymouth,
to replace the water and provifions that we had
July. expended, and to receive on board a fupply of Port Wine.
Monday u This was the employment which occupied us on the ift and
Tuefday 2. 2d of July.
During our ftay here, the crews were ferved with freih
beef every day. And I ihould not do juftice to Mr. Omman-
ney, the Agent Victualler, if I did not take this opportunity
to mention, that he ¿hewed a very obliging readinefs to fur-
niih me with the beft of every thing that lay within his department.
partment. I had been under the like obligations to him on
my Tetting out upon my laft voyage. Commiflioner Our-
ry, 'with equal zeal for the fervice, gave us every afliftance
that we wanted from the naval yard.
It could not but occur to us as a Angular and affeCting
circumftance, that at the very inftant of our departure upon
a voyage, the objeit of which was to benefit Europe by
making freih difcoveries in North America, there ihould be
the unhappy neceflity of employing others of his Majefty’s
ihips, and of conveying numerous bodies of land forces, to
fecure the obedience of thofe parts of that continent which
had been difcovered and fettled by our countrymen in the
laft century. On the 6th, his Majefty’s ihips Diamond, Am-
bufcade, and Unicorn, with a fleet of tranfports, coniifting
of fixty-two fail, bound to America, with the laft divifion of
the Heflian troops, and fome horfe, were forced into the
Sound by a ftrong North Weft Wind.
On the 8th, I received, by exprefs, my inftrudtions * for m k *
the voyage, and an order to proceed to the Cape of Good ” « '
Hope with the Refolution. I was alfo directed to leave an
order for Captain Clerke to follow us, as foon as he ihould
join his ihip; he beipg, at this time, detained in London.
Our firft difcoverers of the New World, and navigators of
the Indian and Pacific Oceans, were juftly thought to have
exerted fuch uncommon abilities, and to have accompliihed
fuch perilous enterprizes, that their names have been handed
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down to pofterity as fo many Argonauts. Nay, even
the hulks of the ihips that carried them, though not converted
into conftellatipns in the Heavens, ufed to be honoured.
and vifited as facred reliques upon earth. We, in the pre-
- r * See the inftruilions, in the Introduaion. Vox,. I. n
^ fent