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safety, and where they sometimes heave small vessels 

 down. 



A Portuguese captain told me, that about half a 

 league from the road, in the direction of S. E., 

 in a line between it and the south side of Pico, 

 lies a sunken rock, over which is twenty-two feet 

 water, and on which the sea breaks in hard gales 

 from the south. He also assured me, that of all the 

 shoals that are laid down in our charts and pilot- 

 books about these isles, not one has any exist- 

 ence but the one between the islands of St. Michael 



and St. Mary, called Hormingan This account 



may be believed, without relying entirely upon 

 it. He further informed me, that it is forty-five 

 leagues from Fayal to the island of Flores ; and 

 that there runs a strong tide between Fayal and Pico, 

 the flood setting to the N. E. and the ebb to the 

 S. W., but that out at sea, the direction is east and 

 west. Mr. Wales having observed the times of high 

 and low water, by the shore, concluded that it must 

 be high water at the full and change about twelve 

 o'clock, and the water riseth about four or five feet. 



The distance between Fayal and Flores was con- 

 firmed by Mr. Rebiers, lieutenant of the French fri- 

 gate, who told me, that, after being by estimation 

 two leagues due south of Flores, they made forty- 

 four leagues, on a S. E. by E., course by compass, to 

 St. Catherine's Point, on Fayal. 



I found the latitude of the> qft0 Q , " ■ XT 



ship at anchor in the bay j Jb dl 55 JN ' 

 By a mean of seventeen sets 



of lunar observations, ta- 

 ken before we arrived, 



and reduced to the bay by 



the watch, the longitude 



was made 



By a mean of six sets after") 



leaving it, and reduced i-28 53 2% 



back by the watch - - j 

 s 3 



>Q8 24 30 W. 



