English Cove lies N.E. ½ N. three or four miles from Wallis's Island; there is a small shoal on the starboard hand going in, which will be easily seen by the sea' S breaking upon it. The water ebbs and flows once in four and twenty hours, the flood came in about nine or ten o'clock, and it was high water between three and four in the afternoon after which it ebbed all night, and was low water about six in the morning. The water rises and falls between eight or nine feet, Sometimes more, sometimes less; but I doubt whether this fluctuation is not rather the effect of the sea and land breeze, than of a regular tide. We anchored here with our best bower in twenty-seven fathom water, with a bottom of sand and mud; we veered into the cove a cable and a half from the anchor, moored head and stern with the stream anchor, and steadied with hawsers on each bow; the ship then lay in ten fathom, at the distance of a cable's length from the shore at the bottom of the Cove, Wallis's Point bearing S.W. ½ S. distant about three or four miles. At this place there is plenty of excellent wood and water, and good shingle ballast. The variation was 6° ½ E.

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