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markable hillock. At the distance of seven leagues 

 from New Island, in the direction of S. W. lies the 

 Isle JEvouts ; and a little to the W. of the south 

 of this island lie Barnevelt's two small flat islands, 

 close to each other ; they are partly surrounded with 

 rocks, which rise to different heights above the water, 

 and lie twenty-four leagues from the Streight of Le 

 Maire. At the distance of three leagues from Bar- 

 nevelt's islands, in the direction of S. W. by S. lies 

 the S. E. point of Hermit's islands : these islands lie 

 S. E. and N. W., and are pretty high : from most 

 points of view they will be taken for one island, or a 

 part of the main. 



From the S. E. point of Hermit's islands to Cape 

 Horn the course is S. W. by S., distance three 

 leagues. 



The appearance of this Cape and Hermit's islands 

 is represented in the chart of this coast, from our 

 first making land to the Cape, which includes the 

 Streight of Le Maire, and part of Staten Land. In 

 this chart I have laid down no land, nor traced out 

 any shore but what I saw myself, and thus far it may 

 be depended upon : the bays and inlets, of which we 

 saw only the openings, are not traced ; it can, how- 

 ever, scarcely be doubted, but that most, if not all 

 of them, afford anchorage, wood, and water. The 

 Dutch squadron, commanded by Hermit, certainly 

 put into some of them in the year 1624. And it wa& 

 Chapenham, the Vice- Admiral of this squadron, who 

 first discovered that the land of Cape Horn consisted 

 of a number of islands. The account, however, 

 which those who sailed in Hermit's fleet have given 

 of these parts is extremely defective ; and those of 

 Schouton and Le Maire are still worse. It is there- 

 fore no wonder that the charts hitherto published 

 should be erroneous, not only in laying down the 

 land, but in the latitude and longitude of the places 

 they contain. I will, however, venture to assert, that 

 the longitude of few parts of the world is better 



