Ch.II. ■ SOUTH AMERICA. 315 



incline towards the E. rather than tov/ards the W. the 

 latter being the quarter from whence the wind pro- 

 ceeded. 



On the jcth of March, bc-ing In the latittid.' of 34" 

 27' S. and, nccording to my account 3 2°. 1.7' E. of the 

 meridian of Conception, we came into a current, which 

 feemed to ftt S. E. the latitude by obfervation exceeded 

 that by account by 10 or 11 minutes. But from the 

 2ifl of April, being in the latitude of 25° i^"', and 

 36° 15' E. of Conception, the two latitudes agreed, 

 and thus continued till we reached the ifland oí Fer- 

 nando de Norona. 



The variation, of which we fhall foon gi\''e a ca- 

 talogue, gave us to underiland from the time wc 

 were under the meridian of Cape Plorn^ that the 

 currents carried our iliips towards the E. founding 

 our judgment on the difference between thofe ob- 

 ferved, and thofe given us in the journals of other 

 voyages, conformable to the places where we made 

 our obfervations. And as they may be ferviceablc 

 to others in making the fame voyage, in order to ren- 

 der them ftill more ufeful than if I had adapted them 

 to the longitude from my account, as that was not 

 the real place where the obfervations were made, I have 

 correóled die longitude in the manner Í am going to 

 explain. 



It being certain from what has been faid concern- 

 ing the currents, that their effecits became fenfible from 

 45° fouth latitude in a S. E. dircdion to the latitude 

 of 56 or 57 degrees; that from thence they continued 

 to run dircólly E. till we were in the latitude of 3^^.** 

 27', and 3 2° 47' E. ot the meridian of Conception ; 

 wlicre their courie turned to the S. E. and continued 

 to run in that direétion till we came into the lacttude 

 of 25^9', and 30° I j' E. of Conception, where they 

 ceafed. it will .refjre be neceffary to divide, in all 

 journals the i2^.>ó'3o''', ^A'hich the ihip was to the 

 c.aíl'.van^ of my reil^cning, in a proportion agreeably 



to 



