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 from the ound of the urf changing alternately on the points of the bay. I therefore ordered the deep ea-lead to be thrown overboard, and getting no bottom at forty fathom, my conjectures were intantly confirmed. We now wore away fifty fathom of cable, but not bringing up, and a light breeze blowing, at the ame time, off the land, we backed off hore, with the yards and mizen-top-ail. I can account for this accident in no other way, then from the too great length of the buoy rope, which, by the blowing of the variable light winds and the hip's winging, had catched in her heel and weighed the anchor, which, with our crippled windlas, employed us five hours to heave up.

I now determined to have a tent pitched on hore and land the ickly part of my crew, together with the econd mate, who till continued to be in an infirm tate, and beat off with the hip, till they hould be recovered. At noon, they were all got on hore, and I left them the jolly-boat, to enable them to catch fih; a diet at once both alutary and refrehing to perons in their ituation. In the afternoon, we tood in with the North Eat point, and kept the lead going, when we found regular oundings at five or ix miles, and from thirty-eight to ten fathom, at one mile and an half from hore; at the ame time we were heltered from the North