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the other. At noon, the Islands of Direction bore N. 21’W. distant three leagues, Saint Paul’s cupola and Cape Victory in one, N. distant seven leagues, and Cape Pillar E. distant six leagues.
Our latitude, by observation, was 52° 38’ and we computed our longitude to be 76° W.
Thus we quitted a dreary and inhospitable region, where we were in almost perpetual danger of shipwreck for near four months, having entered the Streight on the 17th of December 1766, and quitted it on the 11th of April 1767; a region where, in the midst of summer, the weather was cold, gloomy, and tempestuous, where the prospects had more the appearance of a chaos than of Nature, and where, for the most part, the vallies were without herbage, and the hills without wood.
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 409, 2004
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