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14.
Seeking for the Southern Continent

chang'd consequently we are in soundings

30. Pleasant weather   several small peices of weed go by the ship  one was taken with the hoave or dipping net   it seemd not to have been long at sea as it was not much broken or rubbd

October

1  Very little wind & yet vast quantities of small birds are about the ship which has been to us a very uncommon sight in such fine weather   a Seal seen from the ship   several peices of sea weed are taken & among them a peice of wood quite overgrown with sertularias   it must have been a long time at Sea yet more hopes are drawn from this than the sea weed  as we now have in our possession a part of the produce of our Land of Promise   among the weed are many sea insects which are put into spirits   weed wood and all  so we shall at least have this to shew   Several whales have been seen today.

2. Calm  I go in the boat & take up Dagysa rostrata  Serena  polyedra  Beroe incrassata  coarctata  medusa vitrea  Phyllodoce velella  with several other things which are all put in spirits without   See a seal but cannot come near him to shoot   Shoot Diomedea exulans  Procellaria velox  lavipes  pallipes  Latirostris  longipes & Nectris munia  fuliginosa

 

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