th. Fresh breeze and fair weather. At 1 AM saw the Comet a little above the horizon in the East, it pass'd the Meridian about 1/2 past 4-   the tail of the Comet subtended an Angle of 42°. At 8 AM Variation p^r Az^th 7°..9' E^t    Bent a nother suit of sails - Saw a peice of Rock weed, some Pintado Birds and Sheer-waters and a Green Bird something smaller than a Dove, but it was not near enough to distinguish whither it was a Sea or land bird, it was only seen by one person and he probably was mistaken in the Colour — A Swell from the SW —

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