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and east winds. One of my seamen had been on 

 board a Dutch India ship, who put in at this isle in 

 her way out, in 1770. They were very sickly, and 

 in want of refreshments and water. The Portuguese 

 supplied them with some buffaloes and fowls ; and 

 they watered behind one of the beaches in a little 

 pool, which was hardly big enough to dip a bucket 

 in. By reducing the observed latitude at noon to the 

 peaked hill, its latitude will be 3° 53' south ; and its 

 longitude, by the watch, carried on from St. Helena, 

 is 3 C 2° 34*' west ; and by observations of the sun and 

 moon, made before and after we made the isle, and 

 reduced to it by the watch, 32° 44/ 30" west. This 

 was the mean result of my observations. The results 

 of those made by Mr. Wales, which were more nu- 

 merous, gave 3°Z° c Zo. The mean of the two will be 

 pretty near the watch, and probably nearest the truth. 

 By knowing the longitude of this isle, we are able to 

 determine that of the adjacent east coast of Brazil ; 

 which, according to the modern charts, lies about 

 sixty or seventy leagues more to the west. We might 

 very safely have trusted to these charts, especially 

 the Variation Chart for 1744, and Mr. Dairy mple's 

 of the Southern Atlantic Ocean.* 



On the 11th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, we 

 crossed the equator in the longitude of 32° 14/ west. 

 We had fresh gales at S. S. E., blowing in squalls, at- 

 tended by showers of rain, that continued at certain 

 intervals, till noon the next day, after which we had 

 twenty-four hours' fair weather. 



At noon, on the 13th, being in the latitude of 

 3° 41/ north, longitude 31° 47" west, the wind be- 

 came variable, between the N. E. and south ; and we 

 had light airs and squalls by turns, attended by hard 



* Ulloa says, that the chart places this island sixty leagues from 

 the coast of Brazil ; and that the Portuguese pilots, who often 

 make the voyage, judge it to be eighty leagues ; but, by taking the 

 mean between the two opinions, the distance may be fixed at se- 

 venty leagues. 



