An account of several late voyages and discoveries

60 Sir John Narbroagh's Poyag~ Meridian ditlance from the Li:.:rd in Lesgues, Weíl:, 1062. Leagues, Variation of the Compafs here I ñnd to be Eafierly, I 7 Degrees. Here is Anchoring all about this Part of the Strtig,hu, in the fair way fron¡ CaptPir¡/11 Mary till you come into the Narrow. I did not find much Tide any where hereabout , but in the Narro\\', and there thc Tide runs fironger titan it does in the Hopt, a good matter; the floud Tide fets imo the Streig/Jts , and the Ebb fets out; it keepcth its courfe , as on other Co:\íls ; it is lix hqu Floud, and two hours Ebb ; it rifeth and falls rl!ar four Fathom perpendicular; it is an high \Vate herc,on the Change day of the Moon at eleven o the Clock, as far as I could porccive. Many be of Rock-weed are driving to and fro here. Thi da.y at two of the Clock I was a-brealt of Poin Pnffeffion ; I fieer'd from thence Wdl:-north we a.bout two Leagucs, and thcn Wcíl:, and Wcfi fouth-wcfi, nnd S011th.weft and by Sooth,round ing by the Nortl1-fhore: As I Jhoal'd my foun ings, I had 2. 2., and 18, aod 16, and 11., and Fathom, fandy, and fomctimcs gravelly Groun and pcbble Stcncs. I failed, ro\lnding thc fho · being unacquainted, and could not toll ccrtainl wherethc Narrow lay, for it was flmt in one Lan with thc othcr, fo as I could not fec the opcnin:1 I was open of the Narro~ at five a Clock,havin a fine gale at North-north eaíl::. I ficcr'd in Soutl wcfi and by South into che chops of it, but cou not gct paíl: a League into it ; the Tidc bcin ~ent out and ran fo Hrong as I coutiJ not ílem :