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the south waixl, which continued moderate with fine weather 

 and a smooth sea ; and the next day, having carried us one 

 hundred and twenty- three miles, we made Cape Horn, four- 

 teen miles distant on the lee-beam, bearing N. 2^ W., true ; 

 the wind still from the southward. 



Between Cape Horn and Diego Ramirez we had soundings 

 with forty-five fathoms rock, and sixty fathoms sand ; and 

 afterwards from eighty-four to sixty fathoms gravel, coarse and 

 fine sand, and some coral. That night we passed to the north- 

 ward of Diego Ramirez at nine miles distant, not having less 

 than sixty-six fathoms on a bottom of coarse sand. The follow- 

 ino- morning the island of Ildefonso bore N. 5^ W., true, nine 

 miles, and we had seventy-three fathoms fine sand ; and at 

 noon Yorkminster, at the entrance of Christmas Sound, bore 

 N. 370 E., true, nineteen miles, eighty-two fatlioms coral and 

 stones. Not likina^ to range the shore of Terra del Fuego 

 so close during the night with a southerly wind, we tacked ; 

 and with the wind still at S. S.W. stood for thirty-six hours to 

 the S. E. into the meridian of Diego Ramirez ; and when thirty- 

 six miles S. of it, we again kept W. by S., with the wind at 

 S. by W. We stood on, and had light v/inds, fine weather, 

 and a smooth sea until the 24th, when there was a calm for 

 twelve hours, with a little swell from N. E. On the 25th 

 early, we got a north-easterly wind, w^hich commenced witii 

 fine weather and smooth water ; and at noon, on the 26th, 

 carried us to the TQth meridian and 53d parallel of lati- 

 tude, when we considered ourselves round the Horn. In 

 this situation we were one hundred and forty-three miles due 

 west of Cape Pillar ; having numbered exactly fourteen days 

 from the time at which we were a hundred miles due east of 

 Staten Land. We passed Cape Horn on one Sunday, and 

 on the follovv'ing crossed the meridian of Cape Pillar. Our 

 greatest south latitude in the whole passage was 5So 02' S. 

 The gales of wind which we experienced were attended with 

 a long swellj t^^^t by no means strained the ship, and we did 

 not see a particle of floating ice. 



Having reached the meridian of 82° W., there appears to 

 be no difficulty in making the remainder of the passage to 



