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to see them. – Made an attempt
to harpoon them – wounded one
and they all disappeared in an
instant —

3rd day 7mo 3rd

A fine wind aft, all last night
last, going at the rate of ten knots
an hour and this morning about
thirteen miles to the hour!!! —
This is real going. Longitude to
day 24° 19' Lat 49° The wind still
fine and the Captⁿ marked our
situation on the chart, which appears
about 600 miles from Cape Clear –
Struck at another school of porpoises
this evening, with the usual want
of success. — Still a fog which
they say is as common here from
a SW wind as it is with us in
"The States" (as the United States are
called upon the ocean and perhaps
on the Eastern side) to have the
same with a NE wind –
very likely too – for in either
case it would appear as if
the wind raised the vapour in
passing over so large an agitated