First part Gentle breezes and clear latter fresh gales with heavy squalls of wind and rain which brought us under our courses and Main Topsail close reef'd - Soon after noon saw the appearence of land to the Eastward, and being in the Lat^d of Peypes Island as its laid down in some Charts, immagined it might be it. bore down to be certain, and at 1/2 past 2 PM discovered our mistake, and hauld the wind again_ at 6 Sounded, and had 72 fathom black sand and Mud. Variation 19° 45'E^t

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