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fouthcrly winds prevail upon this coaft, 

 we flood off along way to the weilward, 

 making the iiland of Juan Fernandez. 

 We did not get into the bay of Conception 

 till the 6th of January i 745, where we 

 anchored at Talcaguana, and there found 

 the Louis Erafme, the Marquis d'Antin, 

 and the Delivrance, the three French 

 (hips that we were to accompany. It is 

 but fixty leagues from Valparaifo to Con- 

 ception, though we had been fo long 

 making this paffage ; but there is no 

 beating up, near the fliore, againft the 

 foutherly wind, which is the trade, at 

 this feafon, as you are fure to have a lee- 

 current ; fo that the quickeft way of 

 making a paffage is to Hand off a hun- 

 dred* and twenty or thirty leagues from 

 the land. 



The bay of Conception is a large, fine 

 bay ; but there are feveral fhoals in it, and 

 only two good anchoring-places, though 

 a fliip may anchor within a quarter of a 



league 



