A 186 VOYAGE OP DISCOVERY
hook day-light we were well op with the low ifthfld, and we
had a gentle, wind from the fonthward. The illand
X7ST7*
May. of Botol Tobago Xima S.,4° W. ta S. 13° ’W. At
18 h. the north extreme of the low iflàhd hère Weft,
four or five miles. A rock is lituated North of it.
This illand was covered with verdare, and is of little
extent. At noon it bore of ns S;. 21® W. ;- arid the
extreme land of Formofa, North, off the neareft fliore
three or four leagues; and we had no foundings.
Taking a departure from Fornapfe, fouth point, we are-
3 V North of account.
The coaft from the fouth point continues low for
eight or ten leagues; and two or three leagues Nbrth
of it, you have anchorage in 20 and.lô fathoms, half
a mile from the fhore; and feveral ftreams of water
very convenient to be got at, a-breaft of you. In 22*
30' N. the high land commences, riling, abruptly from
the fea ; and the very fummits of the mountains clothed
with wood. Thefe immenfe mountains take the direction.
of the illand, nearly North and South.
Lat. '
Seuth-eaft point of Formofi, xi° ç ÿ 30"
Velc Rete Rocks, - 21° 43!, o"
. Point, 22°.05' ■■■dTSe
Point, 2tP o'
Botol Tobago Xima. p .
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Low Ifland or Tobago, - 22-° 4°'
little Botol Tobago Xima, 2 i° 54* û'
Long;
iao° 44' i&j
121* 35' ' o"
iai°4i.' 0“
( j2rP jL2Si*eC
iai® 47' 3°"- We
TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 187
' We let the figgiagfup fbreand aft. ‘ At 4 h. a breeze
Iprmng up from -the- N.. E:, and -we ftded In fbore
till paft *6, when- We tacked within I a 'ihile, hat
no foundings -with 100 fathoms. The extreifres bf
Eormofa, dfeea indiflan^ly through thehazefbere from
N. 8° E.rto S-.' t 8° W . ; a fmall ftream of wafer thrtwgh
the.vajiies bore 3 - 18° W. Our eftuhated latitude
was: 23? 121 Ni 5 but the -current frill continuing, “will
make ©nr frtuatien more northerly. 1
Count Benyoufky is &kl to- have found a harhonr
©n this part of the coaft, but we faw nothing' wearing
t&ft cap^arance. u;Wer iay to till 10 h., when the
fchotmer haviiJg jehaed us, we flood to the N. E.,
having the wind at N. N. W. After midnight we had
a fteady wind from the N. E. quarter, with dark
gloomy. weather, and frequent {bowers of rain. Wo
had fight .of the fun about noon, but could not depend
upon it, ko
This day: we bad the ^mfefprtune to find- the fore- 12th.
njaft rotten, extending through the «centre of theihaft,
from the heel upwards above the mainftays. I t was
difeovered after tire rigging had been fet up, by "the
'inaft fettling and renting below the wedges; opening
fo much as to dafeover the internal part to be entirely
b b-2' ' ' decayed,
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