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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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he diftance of about two leagues and a half. Athalf paft eight, the paflage between Saypan and Tinianopen, fteered for it, and about nine pafled clofe to theSouth end of Saypan; immediately to the Weftward ofwhich point is a good bay, with perfed: fmooth water anda fine fandy beach, on which there was fcarce any furf. Idid not ftand into the bay, therefore cannot fpeak as tothe foundmgs; but I dare fay the anchorage may be verygood. A little to the Weftward of this bay is another,which looks well for anchorage. In paifing through thispaflage, which trends about Weft by North and Eaft bySouth, diftance from one ifland to the other between twoand three leagues, wc obf^rvcd no foul grounds lying off^from cither iiland, until we got nearly through; then dif-cerned a reef lying trom the South Weft point of Saypan,North Weft, diftant about iialf amije. Indeed, all the Weftfide of Sayphan appears to be bounded by a reef runningnearly the fame diftance from the fhore; and from the faid South8
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Sunday 4. NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 317 South Weft point is a fmall ifland, bearing North half ^ ^iv^ ^Wejft, diftant three or four leagues : from which ifland *--—--—there is a reef running off in the diredlion of about South November.Weft, to the diftance of a league and a half; and there isalfo a reef running off from this fmall ifland that feems tojoin to Sayphan. We obfc^rved a number of white animals grazing on theplains of Tinian, which we fuppofe to be the white cattlethat Lord Anfon fays the illand of Tirdan fo much aboundswith. We could not, although within half a mile of Say-pan, obferve an animal of any kind. Both iflands ap-pear beyond defcription beautiful, abounding in immenfequantities of cocoa-nut and other trees. We could notpafs fo near thefe beautiful iflands without wifliing verymuch to partake of the relrefhments they could fo amplyfurnifh us with, particularly the frefh beef and acid fruits,articles to w^hich we have been ftrangers for upwards oftwo years

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