. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. do2 AVOYAGE TO THE 1787. July. m try again for the harbour In the morning. At eight o'clock the points of the bay we had lately left, bore from North 19 deg. Eaft to Eaft, about three leagues diftant. During the night we ftretch- ed to the Southward and Weft ward, plying as occafion required-
. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. do2 AVOYAGE TO THE 1787. July. m try again for the harbour In the morning. At eight o'clock the points of the bay we had lately left, bore from North 19 deg. Eaft to Eaft, about three leagues diftant. During the night we ftretch- ed to the Southward and Weft ward, plying as occafion required- In the morning of the 3d, we had a frefli Eafterly breeze, and fqually weather, with rain j but as we approached the land, it grew calm ; and at ten o'clock, being not more than a mile diftant from ftiore, the tide fet us ftrongly on a rocky point to the Noith^ ward of the bay, 011 which the whale-boat and yawl were hoifted out and fent a-head, to tow the veflel clear of the rocks. St (Ml. Several canoes came along-fide, but we knew them to be our friends whom we had traded with the day before, and found that they were ftripped of every thing worth purchafmg, which made lis lefs anxious of getting into our propofed harbour, as there was a greater probability of our meeting with frelh fupplies of furs to the Eaftward. At three o'clock a frefh breeze fpringing up, we hoifted in the boats, and the weather turning hazy, weftretched to the South Weft, tacking occafionally during the night. In the morning of the 4th the land in fight bore from North 7^ deg. Eaft to South 48 deg. Eaft, about four leagues diftant. At noon the head of the bay we firft made, and which I ftiall diftin- guifli by the name of Cloak Bay, bore nearly Eaft, about four leagues diftant. Our meridian alitude gave 54 deg. 14 min. North lati- tude; and the longitude was 133 deg. 23 min. Weft. We found the variation of the compafs to be 24 deg. 28 min. Eafterly. During the afternoon we had a frefli Northerly breeze,
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