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Journal of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Kemble, Saturday June 19, 1773

Wind W. S. W. Fresh Breeze, in Royals and T. G. steering sails, handed M. S. Stay Sails and F. T. G. Sail. Wind West. Thick Fog and smooth sea. Set Royalls T. G. Steering Sails, &c. at half Past 10 A.M. brought too, Sounded 30 Fathom Water, caught 30 odd Codd fish, at 12 Meridian thick foggy Weather, small Winds at West. Distance 148. No Observation. Lat. 44.17. Long. 56.51.

SOURCE: New York Historical Society, Publisher, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1883: The Kemble Papers, Vol. 1 1773-1789, pp. 3-4

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