The Captain, however, completed his survey of Dusky Bay, with all its intricate windings, coves, and islands; and, on thursday the 29th, having got every thing on board, and having sown with garden seeds of various sorts a piece of ground where the tents had stood, he sailed from Pickersgill Harbour, and made for a new passage out of the bay to the northward, which he had discovered in his survey. Contrary winds and adverse currents, with the necessity of proceeding cautiously through this new channel, so impeded his progress outwards, that he did not get fairly out to sea till tuesday, May 11th.
Astronomical obscrvations were made at Pickersgill Harbour by Mr. Wales, for determining the variation of the compass, proving the chronometers, and ascertaining the longitude. This last was found to be 166° 18' E.; the latitude 45° 47' 2612" S.
During the passage from Dusky Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound, nothing remarkable occurred, except the appearance of some waterspouts, so often observed in the Pacific Ocean. On the 18th of May, the Resolution arrived in Queen Charlotte's Sound, where, to the great joy of both parties, the Adventure was found at anchor; having arrived here six weeks before, or about ten days after the arrival of the Resolution in Dusky Bay.
The Adventure, after losing sight of the Resolution on the 7th of February, had cruised some days near the spot; when not seeing the Resolution, nor hearing her signals, she bore away in the direction in which both had been sailing; but took an easterly course in a latitude about 8° lower than the Resolution. On the 9th of March, Capt. Fur-
