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 Towards the evening, the barometer fell, and the weather began to be cloudy: but I continued tanding to the Southward with a freh breeze till midnight, when we hove to and ounded; but did not find ground, with one hundred and eventy fathoms of line. The gale was increaing every hour with a heavy ea; and, by day-light, we could only carry cloe-reefed top-ails and fore-ail. The weather was dark and hazy, the ea aumed a deep lead-colour, many birds and whales remained with us, and we paed large quantities of ea-weed. At noon we were in the Latitude of 43° 3′ South, and Longitude 35° 38′ Wet. Here we ounded, but found no bottom: nevertheles, every circumtance trengthened our conjectures that we were nearing the land, which induced me to proceed on my coure, although it continued to blow hard from Wet North Wet. At midnight we hove to, and ounded with one hundred and eventy fathoms of line, but found no bottom. At day-light we ounded again with two hundred fathoms of line, and were equally unucceful. We now made ail, and at noon our Latitude was 44° 51′; Longitude by obervation, 34° 59′; and by mean of chronometers 33° 53′ 30″ Wet.

The birds leened greatly in numbers, and with them our hopes of finding the land which was the object of our earch. I continued, however, to cruie about for everal