threatening weather,: barometer .falling. At 12 h.
the wind iucreafed ; .• and- at 16 h. we were under
\ ‘1 ’ cojirfes and m'ain-topfail. At 19 h. we had Tqually
- weather, with atgreat deal of rain, and a Jarge. fea
andfoon after we, faw th e , rdcks which| are fituated to
the S. W. of Outer Ifland. At firft we’ took them for
a veffbl utfder low fail, till the iflands appearing dif-
covered our miftake. At 20 h. 30* they bpfe-S. 50° E.
•three leagues, \yhen~weCwore: fliip;', At:2i h. 1 0 'the
wind fuddenly fliifted to W. N. W., and blew,very
ftrong, and the weather,-began to clear away: we
fhaped our courfe to pafs to; the North of Volcano
Ifland, between it and an ifland that appeared much
broken by the inequality, of its form. _ At noon the
rocks off the eaft- extreme of Volcano Ifland bore
70° E., two orjthree miles Broken Ifland-1ST-, 15®
W. to N. 29° W., ten miles, jL very high mountain
, N. 22° W. Mount Fufi *
14th. Frefh gales and dear weather, with heavy.fqualls of
wind. We found the paffage five or fix .leagues wide
* Thunberg, in' Ms voyage to ' Japan, fays, Vol. III. p. 158, «A t
Jofiwara we were nearer than any where elfe to the mountain of Fufi:
The Japanefe reckon the Mght of iti in die afceint from tht ioot to the
' «0 be fix: leagues, In fliape it referable?-a fugaf l?af * it» top reaches
a&iwe die clouds, and is difcernible at many leagues’ diftance.
betwixt
betwixt. thefq iflands, and no dangers. The north C H A P ,
point of Broken Ifland is rather .high, with perpendi-
^ u la i vlntifli cliffs. . fpff H g g i W. pait is a large de.
- tac^?d rock, >vyith vfeveral .fmqh - .ones ^aba'jpt i t Its
: greafoftexteht is-in a N. E. and S. W. direction, four
%'%hfnifes?;> Tp:thd^ ,f.^.,(^ it are fwovm<we’iflands:
.the.- fii-ft is low an,d flat, but the northe.rnmo.ft. is more
■e\,u ml./.lfr of moderate height, and connected in parts
by low land, which makes it appear at a diftance like,
^ ^ :% ' 0onfpicit6us white, mark on
the.fouthern pne, and- a rock laying,off it fo(.th& weft-
W<J- Direaiy -North of this ifland, at four or five
miles ? diftance,. are .the jf wo- hummocks before men- .
tioned : fhe. northern one is the largeft. In the after-
hQ9$-'V%?3a<i.a fjne view of the famous. Mount Fufi,
tpVPriHg above the .high land, and covered with friow'.
,|l||H P $f£|t ^ore 48° W.; and a large-ifland from
I p i 88° yf- W., .four or. five leagues; Land -
fpen4ndiffii#ly.,; The wind prevent-,
fog .onn eutering Jeddo bay, we bore up to the South,
.to expire the iflandsto the .-South, of .Outer Ifland,9
with a "ftrong. gale at: Weft. At lfih.^O^wc/aw the
iflands to the fouthward ; and at noon they bore from
N. 20 E. to S. 80° E0 four or five, miles,, .Variable '
weather. V
Frefli