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Calm, which brought so much food to our pursuits.
8. Blew fresh today, but the wind was very fair so nobody complaind, nor would they was the wind much stronger, so impatient has the Calms & foul wind made every body; by the reckoning we were off Cape St Vincent so shall soon bid adieu to Europe for some time.
10. Since the northerly wind began to blow it has not varied a point, the Sea is now down & we go pleasantly on at the rate of about 6 Knotts, could any contrivance be found by the help of which new subjects of natural history could be taken Dr Solander & myself would be Quite happy, we are forc'd to be content, three days are now passd since any thing has been taken or indeed seen, except a stray turtle who swam by the ship about noon, but was left far behind before any instrument by which he might have been taken could
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