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Title: A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north- west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon
Year: 1789 (1780s)
Authors: Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817. cn
Subjects: King George (Ship) Queen Charlotte (Ship) Voyages around the world
Publisher: London, Printed for J. Stockdale, and G. Goulding
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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is fituatedfive cr fix leagues within the South W\^ft point of Tvlon-tague Ifland, and nearly a-breaft on the iiland that lormsthe Weft fide c<f the Channel. At two oclock the whale-boat was fent to found and examine the bay. In the fpaceof an hour flie returned, and the officer who was in herreported that the fhips could ride in it with fafety. Onthis I hauled in for it, and anchored at four oclock intwenty fathoms water over a muddy bottom. We mooredwith the beft bower in twenty-one fathoms over the/Imie bottom. In running into the bayjuft off the Southpoint, we had fevcn and eight fathoms water over abottom of black mud and land. This bank appeared torun nearly acrofs the mouth of the bay, and, aiter paftingit, we deepened tlie water to twenty-one fathoms, in whichdepth we anchored. V/hen moored, the South point ofthe bay bore South Weft by South two miles and a half,and the North point North North Weft half Weft, twomiles diftant, our diftance from the neareft fliorc about one
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