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 		21 November 1769

Tuesday 21st After land as above-mentioned we had not gone a hundred yards into the Woods before we found a tree that girted 19 feet 8 Inches, 6 feet above the Ground, and having a quadrant with me I found its length from the root to the first branch to be 89 feet.   it was as streight as an arrow and taper'd but very little in proportion to its length.  so that ^I judged that there was 356 solid feet of timber in this tree clear of the branches. We saw many others of the same sort several of which was half as long again were taller than the one we measured and all of them very stout; there were likewise many other sorts of very stout timber trees all of them wholy unknown to any of us    we brought away a few specimans and at 3 oClock we embarqued in order to return on bioard with the very first of the Ebb ^ but not before we had named this River the Thames on account of its bearing some resemblence to that River in england. In our return down the River the inhabitants of the Village where we landed ^in going, seeing that we return'd by a nother Channell put off in their Canoes and met us and trafficked with us in the most friendly manner immaginable untill they had disposed of the few trifles they had -

The Tide of Ebb just carried us out of the ^narrow part of the River into the Bay Sea reach as I may call it . where meeting with the flood and a strong breeze at NNW obliged us to come to a grappling and we did not reach the Ship untill 7 oClock ^in the AM —

Intending to get under Sail at high water the Long boat was sent to take up the Kidge anchor but ^it blow'd so strong that she could not reach the B^uoy and it begining to blow strong was the gale increasing soon ^ obliged us to bear away more Cable and strike Topgallant yards —

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