Having proceeded about 2,500 toiſes along this channel, we entered a ſecond bay upwards of 5,000 toiſes in length, and bounded to the weſt by pretty high grounds; the eaſtern coaſt, which ſeparates this ſtrait from Adventure-bay, was leſs elevated.
About half an hour after one in the afternoon, we caſt anchor at the diſtance of 500 toiſes from the ſhore; Cape Canelé bearing S. 33° E.
I went on ſhore to north-weſt, where I found the woods very full of thickets, and extremely damp, though no rain had fallen for ſeveral days. A new ſpecies of ptelea grew in great abundance amongſt the ſhrubs with which this country was covered.
26th. We weighed anchor about ſeven in the morning, and found ourſelves, at noon, in a third bay, where the great number of openings in the land left us for ſome time doubtful what courſe we ſhould ſteer, in order to get out of it, which we a length accompliſhed, to north-weſt, by the moſt diſtant of the openings. The depth of water in this bay was not leſs than eleven fathoms about the middle, and at leaſt ſix and a half at the diſtance of a hundred toiſes from the ſhore.
Having proceeded almoſt 10,000 toiſes to N.N.W. we anchored about half an hour after three in the afternoon, in a depth of fourteen fa-
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