CAPTAIN COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE.

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apparently defcends till it joins the agitated water below. Captain Cook fays, appa-rently, becaufe he believes it not to be fo in reality, but that the tube is alreadyformed from the agitated water below, and afcends, though at firft it is either too fmallor too thin to be feen. When the tube is formed, or becomes vifible, its apparentdiameter increafeth until it is pretty large; after that, it decreafeth ; and at laft, itbreaks or becomes invifible towards the lower part. Soon after, the fea below refumesits natural ftate, and the tube is drawn by little and little up to the clouds, where it isdiffipated. The molt rational account of water-fpouts, Captain Cook fays, is in Mr.Falconer’s Marine Dictionary, which is chiefly collected from the philofophical writingsof the ingenious Dr. Franklin.

At day-light on the 18th of May, they arrived off Queen Charlotte’s Sound, wherethey difeovered the Adventure, by the fignals {he made ; an event which every onefelt with an agreeable fatisfaCtion. At noon, Lieutenant Kemp, of the Adventure,came on board ; from whom they learnt that their (hip had been there about fix weeks.In the evening they came to an anchor in Ship Cove, near the Adventure; whenCaptain Furneaux came on board, and gave Captain Cook an account of his proceedingsduring their feparation.

Subjlance of Captain Furneaux''s Narrative.

On the 7th of February 1773, in the morning, the Refolution being about twowiles ahead, the wind fluffing to the wefhvard, brought on a very thick fog, fo that theAdventure loft fight of her. They foon after heard a gun, the report of which theyimagined to be on the larboard beam ; they then hauled up fouth-eaft, and kept firinga four-pounder every half-hour; but had no anfwer, nor further fight of her: thenthey kept the courfe they fteered before the fog came on. In the evening it began toblow hard, and was, at intervals, more clear, but could fee nothing of the Refolution,Which gave them much uneafinefs. They then tacked and flood to the weft ward, tocruize in the place where they laft faw her, according to agreement in cafe of fepara-tion ; but next day came on a very heavy gale of wind and thick weather, that obligedthem to bring to, and thereby prevented their reaching the intended fpot. They cruizedas near the place as they could get for three days, when giving over all hopes of joiningcompany again, they bore away for winter quarters, diftant fourteen hundred leagues,through a fea entirely unknown, and reduced the allowance of water to one quart perd ay. They were daily attended by great numbers of fea birds, and frequently faw por-poifes curioufly fpotted white and black.

On the ill of March, they bore away for the land laid down in the charts by theflame of Van Diemen’s Land, difeovered by Tafman in 1642, and fuppofed to join toNew Holland.

, On the 9th of March, they faw the land bearing north-north-eaft, about eight orfline leagues diftant. It appeared moderately high, and uneven near the fea. Theyhauled immediately up for it, and by noon were within three or four leagues of it.foundings from forty-eight to feventy fathoms, fand and broken (hells. Here thecountry is hilly arid well clothed with trees ; they faw no inhabitants.

■The morning on the 10th of March being calm, the (hip, then about four miles fromme land, fent the great cutter on fhore with the fecond lieutenant, to find if there was^7 harbour or good bay. Soon after, it beginning to blow very hard, they made thehgnal for the boat to return feveral times, but they did not fee or hear any thing oflt i the {hip then three or four leagues off, which gave them much uneafinefs, as there

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