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 might, on my return, earch for it in the Latitudes of 40° and 41°, having trong reaon to believe, that there is land in or near thoe Latitudes, but to the Eatward of the Longitude which I croed; as otherwie, I am at a los to account for uch a quantity of birch twigs, ea-weed, drift-wood and birds as were een in that ituation. Some of thee birds appeared to be quite young, from the difficulty with which they eemed to ue their wings; though that circumtance, it is poible, might have proceeded from their being gorged with ea blubber, with which the urface of the water was covered.

From the land dicovered by Monieur La Roche, in Latitude 55° South, which I touched at with Captain Cook, in the year 1771, who named it Georgia, I am dipoed to believe, that the Ile of Grand alo exits, and that my not being able to find it, aroe from an error in copying the Lati-