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Thursday 16th Fresh breezes between the NW and S.W. and fair weather. At 1 PM having got within the Group of Islands which lies of the North head of Mercury Bay, haul'd our wind to the northward and kept plying to windward all this day between these Islands and some others laying to the Northward of them, with a View to get under the Main land, the extreem N.W. point of which, that we could see ^at noon bore WBN. distant 6-8 Leagues. Latd in per observation 36°..33' So -
Note, In speaking of Mercury Bay I had forgot to mention that the Mangrove trees found there produce a resinous substance very much like rosin - something of this kind I am told is found in both the East and West Indias. We found it at first in small lumps upon the Sea beach, but afterwards found it sticking to the Mangrove trees and by that means found out from whence it came —
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