l&Iy’ parted near the inner end ; and we loft both it and the an-
1— |— i chor. For although w e brou ght the Ihip up w ith one o f the
bowers, and fpent moft o f the day in fweeping for them, it
was to no effeft. By an obfervation, we found our ftation
to be in the latitude o f 59° 5 1 '; the low land above mentioned
extended from North Eaft to South, 75' Eaft; the
neareft part two leagues diftant. T h e land on the Weftern
ihore was about feven leagues diftant, and extended from
South 35' Weft, to North 7' Eaft ; fo that the extent o f the
inlet was now reduced to three points and a h a lf o f the
compafs ; that is, from North h a lf Eaft, to North Eaft. Between
thefe two points no land was to be leen. Here was
a ftrong tide fetting to the Southward out o f the inlet. I t .
was the ebb, and ran between three and four knots in an
hour-; and it was low water at ten o’clock. A good deal o f
fea-weed, and fome drift-wood, were carried out vpth the
. tide. T he water too had become thick lik e that in rivers;
but w e were encouraged to proceed by finding it as fait at
low water as the ocean. T h e ftrength o f the flood-tide was
three k n o ts ; and the ftream ran up till fo u r in the afternoon.
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As it continued calm a ll day, I did not move till e ight
o’clock in the evening; when, with a ligh t breeze at Eaft, w e
weighed, and flood to the North, up the inlet. We had not
been long under fail, before the wind veered to the North,
increafing to a frefh gale, and blowin g in fqualls, with rain.
T h is did not, however, hinder us from p lyin g up as long
as the flood continued ; which was till near five o’clock the
Friday 29. next morning. We had foundings from thirty-five to
twenty-four fathoms. In this Iaft depth we anchored about
two leagues from the Eaftern ihore, in the latitude o f 60“ 8';
fome low land, that we judg ed to be an ifland, ly in g under
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the Weftern ihore, extended from North h a lf Weft, to North
Weft by North, diftant three or four leagues.
T h e weather had now become fair and tolerably d e a r ;
fo that we could fee any land that migh t lie within our horizon
; and in a North North Eaft direction no land, nor any
thin g to o b ftru d our progrefs, was vifible. But, on each
fide was a ridge o f mountains, rifing one behind a’nother,
withou t the leaft feparation. I judged it to be low water
b y the Ihore, about ten o’c lo ck ; but the ebb ran down
till near noon. T he ftrength o f it was four knots and a
h a l f ; and it fe ll, upon a perpendicular, ten feet three
inches, that is, w h ile we la y an anch or; fo that there is
reafon to believe this was not the greateft fall. On the
Eaftern ihore w e now faw two columns o f fmoke, a fure
fign that there were inhabitants.
At one in the afternoon w e weighed, and plyed up under
double-reefed top-fails and courfes, ha vin g a ve ry ftrong
g a le at North North Eaft, nearly right down the inlet. We
ftretched over to the Weftern ihore, and fetched within two
leagues o f the South end o f the low land, or ifland before
mentioned, under which I intended to have taken ihelter till
the gale ihould ceafe. But fa llin g fuddenly into twelve fathoms
water, from upward o f forty, and fee ing the appearance
o f a fhoal ahead, fpitting out from the low land, I
tacked, and ftretched ba ck to theE a ftw a rd ; and anchored
under that ihore in nineteen fathoms water, over a bottom
o f fmall pebble ftones.
Between one and, two in the morning o f the 30th, we
weighed again with the firft o f the flood, the ga le having,
b y this time, quite abated, but ftill continuing contrary;
fo that we plied up till near feven o’c lock, when the tide
being