Saturday 4.
Sunday 5.
Monday 6.
Tuefday 7*
Wednef. 8.
found forty-eight fathoms, over a bottom o f black fane!.
Be ing at this time fo u r leagues from the land, the Eaftera
part in fight bore Eaft South Eaft, and appeared as a high
round hummock, feeming ly detached from the main.
H a vin g continued to fleer Eaft North Eaft all night, at
e ight in the morning o f the 4th, the coaft was feen from
South South Weft, and Eaft by S o u th ; and at times we could
fee h ig h land, covered with fnow, behind it. , Soon after, it
fe ll calm, and be in g in thirty fathoms water, we put over
hooks and lines, and caught a good number o f fine cod-fifti.
At noon, ha vin g now a breeze from the Eaft, and the weather
being clear, we found ourfelves fix leagues from the
land, which extended from South by Weft to Eaft by South.
T h e hummock, feen the preceding evening, bore South
Weft by South, ten leagues diftant. Our latitude was now
55 5 ° > and our longitude 197° 3'. A great hollow fwell
from Weft South Weft, allured us, that there was no main
land near, in that diredion I flood to the North till fix in
the afternoon, when the wind having veered to South Eaft,
enabled us to fleer Eaft North Eaft. T h e coaft la y in this
direction, and, at noon the next day, was about four leagues
diftant.
On the 6th and 7th, the wind being Northerly, we made
but little progrefs. At eight in the evening o f the latter, we
were in nineteen fathoms water, and about three or four
leagues from the coaft, which, on the 8th, extended from
South South Weft to Eaft by North, and was all low land,
w ith a ridge o f mountains behind it, covered with fnow.
It is probable, that this low coaft extends, fome diftance, to
the South Weft ; and that fuch places as we fometimes took
fo r inlets or bays, are only vallies between the mountains.
On the morning o f the 9th, with a breeze at North Weft, >77*.
w e fleered Eaft b y North, to ge t nearer the coaft. At noon w e « - Ì Ì L .
were in the latitude o f 57° 49', and in the longitude o f 201* ThurflU»
33'. and about two leagues from the land, w h ich extended
from South b y Eaft to Eaft North E a ft | being all a low coaft
with points fhooting out in fome places, which, from the
de ck, appeared lik e lflandsj but, from the maft-head, low
land was feen to co n n ed them. In this fituation, the
depth o f water was fifteen fathoms, the bottom a fine
b la ck fand.
As w e had advanced to the North Eaft, w e had found the
depth o f water grad u ally decreafing, and the coaft trending
more and more Northerly. But the ridge o f mountains behind
it, continued to lie in the fame diredion as thofe more
We fte rly; fo that the extent o f the low land, between the
foot o f the mountains and the fea coaft, infenfibly increafcd.
Both h igh and low grounds were p e r fe d ly deftitute o f
wood; but feemed to be covered with a green turf, except
the mountains, w h ich were covered with fnow. Continuing
to fteer a lon g the coaft, with a gentle breeze Wefterly, the
water grad ually fhoaled from fifteen to ten fathoms, though
w e were at the diftance o f eight or ten miles from the
ihore. At e igh t in the evening, an elevated mountain,
w hich had been in fight fo r fome time, bore South Eaft b y
Eaft, twenty-one leagues diftant. Some other mountains,
b e lon gin g to the fame chain, and much farther diftant
bore Eaft 3 North. The coaft extended as far as North
Eaft h a lf North, where it feemed to terminate in a point
beyond w hich we hoped and expeded, that it would take a
more Eafterly diredion. But foon after, w e difcovered low
land, extending from behind this point, as fa r as North
Weft