[on board French Navy ship of the line Hector, July 1778]
the Wind blowing hard the Next morning 24th the wind Still Continuving to the NE but much abated, our Course I Conclude must have been made good about—SE By S 96 miles in the afternoon the wind Shifted to Eastward and Continuved Shifting till it got to about South South East and Calmed in the Evening
D, RPJCB, Jonathan Lawrence Journal.