In this situation, having tacked in fifty-four fathoms water, over a bottom of black sand, we stood over for the island, intending to work up between it and the main.
We had soundings from thirty-five to twenty-four fathoms.
I found a large village, and, before it, a very snug harbour, in which was from nine to four fathoms water, over a bottom of fine sand.
The channel is not above a mile broad; and before we were through it, the wind failed, and we were obliged to anchor in thirty-four fathoms water.
Our depth going out of the strait was from twenty-nine to thirty-four fathoms, and we had many islands to the E.
You may boldly keep in twenty-three or twenty-four fathoms water in the offing, and in twenty fathoms upon Java in the darkest night that is, and during the day upon Java in any depth you please.
After passing the bar, there are from two to four fathoms water.
The least water is four fathoms, half a fathom more than was found in the other, the direction of which crossed the set of the tide when the bank on the west side became covered.
A flat of three or four fathoms at low-water extended across the channel, with River Peak bearing between North 35 East and North 64 East.
A reef of rocks extends out a little way from each point, but the channel is of a good breadth, and hath in it from forty to twenty-four fathoms water.
Near the position assigned we certainly shoaled our water from twenty-eight to twenty-four fathoms, but no other indication of a bank was to be found.
There was no impediment to our passage through the Strait, until we got abreast of Wallis Isles, Cape Cornwall bearing East by North 1/2 North; when the water shoaled to four fathoms and a half.
Six miles North 40 degrees East from Cape Keith, we passed over two patches of only three or four fathoms; these we could not see from the general disturbed and discoloured state of the water, it blowing fresh from South-East.
This channel being still more contracted towards the evening, we were obliged to make fast to some grounded land ice upon the beach in four fathoms water, there to await some change in our favour.
The Fury, which was placed inside, had something less than eighteen feet at low water; the Hecla lay in four fathoms, the bottom being strewed with large and small fragments of limestone.
I have mentioned, that on some of the shoals upon which it grows, we did not strike ground with a line of twenty-four fathoms.
I continued to sound as I went farther in, but found no bottom with a line of thirty-four fathoms, which was the length of that I had in the boat, and which also proved too short to sound the bay, so far as I went up it.
Cape of Good Hope; and the next day anchored in Table Bay, in four fathoms water, with the church bearing S.
On his return he reported the bar to be too shoal to admit an entrance to vessels of greater draught than four feet, but that having passed it, the inlet runs up a considerable distance, with soundings from three to four fathoms.
The Fury, which was placed inside, had something less than eighteen feet at low water; the Hecla lay in four fathoms, the bottom being strewed with large and small fragments of limestone.
Within the point was a fair bay, with a good harbour, having anchorage in four fathoms, within a cable's length of the shore.
In the port, the depth of water is from twenty to four fathoms; and it is so sheltered that no winds can disturb a ship at anchor there.
The wind left us as soon as we were within the entrance, and obliged us to drop an anchor in four fathoms water.
The channel between this island and the Monument is near a mile broad, and twenty-four fathoms deep.
The water was deep at its mouth, from thirty-eight to thirty-four fathoms; but the comparative lowness of the shores at its S.
Passing onward, the water shoaled to four fathoms, until we had passed extensive banks, which front the river.
The 12th we stood in with the land, and anchored in twenty-four fathoms, the wind being S.
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.
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