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PHIPPS’s JOURNAL. 543
The twenty-third, the fhip was hauled out of dock.
May the twenty-firlt, the fhip being manned and rigged, and having got in all the
provifions and ftores, except the gunner’s, we fell down to Galleons.
The twenty-fecond, we received on board the powder, with eight fix-pounders, and
all the gunner’s ftores. Lord Sandwich gave us the laft mark of the obliging attention
he had fhewn during the whole progrefs of the equipment, by coming on board to fatisfy
himfelf, before our departure, that the whole had been completed to the with of thofe
who were embarked in the expedition. The eafterly winds prevented our going down
the river till the twenty-fixth, when I received my inftructions for the voyage, dated the
twenty-fifth ; directing me to fall down to the Nore in the Racehorfe, and there taking
under my command the Carcafs, to make the beft of my way to the northward, and
proceed up to the North Pole, or as far towards it as poffible, and as nearly upon a me-
ridian as the ice or other obftructions might admit; and, during the courfe of the
voyage, to make fuch obfervations of every kind as might be ufeful to navigation, or
tend to the promotion of natural knowledge: in cafe of arriving at the Pole, and even
finding free navigation on the oppofite meridian, not to proceed any farther; and atall
events to fecure my return to the Nore before the winter fhould fet in. There was
alfo a claufe authorizing me to proceed, in unforefeen cafes, according to my own dil-
cretion ; and another claufe directing me to profecute the voyage on board the Carcats,
in cafe the Racehorfe fhould be loft or difabled.
The twenty-feventh, I anchored at the Nore, and was joined by Captain Lutwidge,
in the Carcafs, on the thirtieth : her equipment was to have been in all refpects the
fame as that of the Racehorfe ; but when fitted, Captain Lutwidge finding her too deep
in the water to proceed to fea with fafety, obtained leave of the admiralty to put fix
more guns on fhore, to reduce the complement to eighty men, and return a quantity
of provifions proportionable to that reduction. ‘The officers were recommended by
Captain Lutwidge, and did juftice to his penetration by their conduct in the courfe of
the voyage. During our ftay here, Mr. Lyons landed with the aftronomical quadrant
at Sheernefs fort, and found the latitude to be 51° 31/ 30%, longitude o° 30’ Eaft. The
eafterly winds prevented our moving this day and the following.
The fecond of June, having the wind to the weftward of north, at five in the morning
I made the fignal to weigh ; but in lefs than half an hour the wind {hifting to the eait-
ward, and blowing frefh, I furled the topfails. ‘The wind came in the afternoon to N-
by E., we weighed, but did not get far, the tide of flood making againft us.
The third, the wind blowing frefh all day eafterly, we did not move.
The fourth, the wind coming round to the weltward at fix in the morning, I weighed
immediately, and fent the boat for Captain Lutwidge, to deliver him his orders. At
ten A. M. longitude by the watch 56’. At eight in the evening we had got as far as
Balfey cliff, between Orford and Harwich. Little wind at night.
The fifth, anchored in Hofeley Bay at half paft feven in the evening, in five and an
half fathom water. Orford caftle N. E. by N.
Angle between Aldborough church and Orford light-houfe, - BS vat
Light-houfe and Orford church, Bc Mahim - - 18 16
Orford church and caftle, - - - - 2 20
Caftle and Hofeley church, - - - ShiIGokrg
Hofeley and Balfey church, - : - - 27
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The fixth, at five in the morning, the wind at S. S. W., weighed, and ftood out to
fea, finding I might lofe two tides by going through Yarmouth Roads, Examined the
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