We kept within a mile of the shore, sounding from eight to fifteen fathoms, generally on a sandy bottom; and a run of seven miles brought us within three miles of the bottom of the inlet, the depth of water being four fathoms, on sand.
We here anchored in fifteen fathoms on clean hard sand, two miles from the shore.
On the 6th August we came to anchor on the east side of the northermost of the Five Islands, or Bashees, in fifteen fathoms.
We now tacked westwards, and deepened our water to fifteen fathoms; but the next tack brought us into five.
The 24th we fell in with Mayo, and stood to the southward of that island, coming to anchor in fifteen fathoms.
The hull had slipped off the reef and lay in fifteen fathoms.
I learned to do my fifteen fathoms, but never could I equal them in their fishy exploits.
From eight to fifteen fathoms a little calcareous sand was occasionally brought up, but more frequently the arming was simply indented.
Krusenstern speaks of some of the islands being mountainous; the reefs are distant from the shore, and there are spaces within them, and not opposite valleys, with from ten to fifteen fathoms.
On the west side of the island, you may borrow in twelve or fifteen fathoms, till you come into the road, where we anchored in twenty-four fathoms.
The 25th, we got into the road of Becee, and anchored in fifteen fathoms, about two miles from the shore; the S.
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