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HE lant of wind with which we et ail continued to be fair no longer than midnight, and we were obliged to ply to windward until the ſeventh of January at noon; when, being cloe in with the Start, and threatened with a gale of wind from the Southward, we bore up and anchored in Torbay for the night. The wind at day-light hifting to the North North Wet, we weighed and tood out of the bay. This pirt carried us as far as the Eddytone Light-houe, when it again hifted to the Southward and blew freh. We had now to beat off a lee-hore, and, by the pres of ail which we were obliged to carry, in order to accomplih that object, and to get ten leagues to the Southward and Wetward of the Lizard, we had three feet water in the hold from a leak in