THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 2 



Cape Gregory ^. Its latitude is 43° qo', and its longitude '778- 



-''-'". TJ J ' a March. 



235° 57' Eaft. It is a remarkable point; the land of it rifing 

 almoft direcftly from the fea, to a tolerable height, while that 

 on each fide of it is low; 



I continued {landing off till one in the afternoon. Then 

 I tacked, and flood in, hoping to have the wind off from 

 the land in the night. But in this I was miilaken ; for at 

 live o'clock it began to veer to the Well and South Weft ; 

 which obliged me, once more, to ftand out to fea. At this 

 time, Cape Perpetua bore North Eaft by North ;. and the 

 fartheft land we could fee to the South of Cape Gregory, 

 bore South by Eaft, perhaps ten or twelve leagues diftanr. 

 If I am right in this eftimation, its latitude will be 43° 10', 

 and its longitude 255° 55' Eaft, which is nearly the fituation 

 of Cape Blanco, difcovered or feen by Martin d'Aguilar, on 

 the 19th of January, 1603. It is worth obferving, that, in 

 the very latitude where we now were, geographers have 

 been pleafed to place a large entrance or ftrair, the difco- 

 very of which they take upon them to afcribe to the fame 

 navigator; whereas nothing more is mentioned in the ac- 

 count of his voyage, than his having feen, in this fituation, 

 a large river, which he would have entered, but was pre- 

 vented by the currents \. 



The wind, as I have obferved, had veered to South Weft 

 in the evening ; but it was very unfettled, and blew in 

 fqualls with fnow fliowers. In one of thcfe, at midnight, 

 it fhifted at once to Weft North Weft, and foon increafed to 

 a very hard gale, with heavy fqualls, attended with fleet 

 or fnov/. There was no choice now ; and we were obliged 



* In our calendar, the 7th of March is diftinguiflied by the name of Perpetua M, 

 and the 12th by thatbf Gregory B. 



t See the Hiilory of California. Eng. tranf. Vol. ii. p. 292. 



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