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Plymouth

August 1768
25. After having waited in this place ten days; the ship, & everything belonging to me, being all that time in perfect readyness to sail at a moments warning; we at last got a fair wind, & this day at 3 O'Clock in the even weigd anchor, & set sail, all in excellent health & spirits perfectly prepard (in Mind at least) to undergo with Chearfullness any fatigues or dangers that may occur in our intended Voyage.

26. Wind still fair, but very light breezes, saw this Even a shoal of those fish which are particularly calld Porpoises by the seamen, probably the Delphinus Phocaena of Linnaeus, as their noses are very blunt.

27. Wind fair & a fine Breeze; found the ship to be but a heavy sailer, but probably the indeed we could not Expect her to be any other from her built, so are obligd to set down with this Inconvenience, as a nescessary consequence of her form; which is much more calculated for stowage, than for sailing.

28. Little wind today, in some sea water, which was taken on board to season a cask; observed a very minute sea Insect, which Dr Solander describd by the name of Podura marina. In the Evening very calm, with the small

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