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A VOYAGE TO 



'776- and did but juft weather the breakers. Our fituation, for a 



\ >■ — ' few minutes, was very alarming. I did not chufe to found, 



as tliat might have heightened tlie danger, without any 

 polTibility of lefTening it. I make the North end of the 

 ifland of Bonavifta to lie in the latitude of 16' 17' North, and 

 in the longitude of 22° 59' Weft. 



Sunday ii. As foou as we werc clear of the rocks, wc fteered South 

 South Weft, till day-break next morning, and then hauled 

 to the Weftward, to go between Fonavifta and the ille of 

 Mayo, intending to look into Port Praya for the Difcovery, 

 as I had told Captain Gierke that I fhould touch there, and 

 did not know how foon he might fail after me. At one in 

 the afternoon, we faw the rocks that lie on the South V/eft 

 fide of Bonavifta, bearing South Eaft, diftant three or four 

 leagues. 



Next morning, at fix o'clock, the ifle of Mayo bore South 

 Monday 12. Soutli Eaft, diftant about five leagues. In this fituation we 

 founded, and found ground at fixty fathoms. At the fame 

 lime the variation, by ihe*mean of feveral azuuuths taken 

 with three different compafles, was y" 32^' Weft. At eleven 

 o'clock, one extreme of Mayo bore Eaft by North, and the other 

 South Eaft by South. In this pofition, two roundifh hills 

 appeared near its North Eaft part ; farther on, a large and 

 higher hill; and, at about two-thirds of its length, a fingle 

 one that is peaked. At the diftance we now faw this ifland, 

 which was three or four miles, there was not the leaft ap- 

 pearance of vegetation, nor any relief to the eye from that 

 lifelefs brown which prevails in countries under the Torrid 

 2k)ne that are unwooded. 



Here I cannot help remarking that Mr. Nichelfon, in his 

 Preface to Sundry Remarks and ObfervaUons made in a Voyage to 



the 



