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] Having proceeded about 2,500 toies along this channel, we entered a econd bay upwards of 5,000 toies in length, and bounded to the wet by pretty high grounds; the eatern coat, which eparates this trait from Adventure-bay, was les elevated.

About half an hour after one in the afternoon, we cat anchor at the ditance of 500 toies from the hore; Cape Canelé bearing S. 33° E.

I went on hore to north-wet, where I found the woods very full of thickets, and extremely damp, though no rain had fallen for everal days. A new pecies of ptelea grew in great abundance amongt the hrubs with which this country was covered.

26th. We weighed anchor about even in the morning, and found ourelves, at noon, in a third bay, where the great number of openings in the land left us for ome time doubtful what coure we hould teer, in order to get out of it, which we a length accomplihed, to north-wet, by the mot ditant of the openings. The depth of water in this bay was not les than eleven fathoms about the middle, and at leat ix and a half at the ditance of a hundred toies from the hore.

Having proceeded almot 10,000 toies to N.N.W. we anchored about half an hour after three in the afternoon, in a depth of fourteen fa- thoms