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grees, 4Í; minutes eafl: of Conception, the winds ge- 

 nerally being S. S. W. and W. S. W. One day only 

 we had them at N. W. and W. N. W. and this was on 

 the 23d after a very violent ftorm, which began at 

 twelve in the night of the acid, at E. S. E. whence ac 

 fix in the- morning the wind flew about to the S. and S. 

 one quarter we'lerly, whiJit we lay to under our main- 

 fail; and, when the wind offered, made way under that 

 and a topfail with a reef in both; bciides the hgh feas 

 which fuch a ftorm naturally occafioned, we had alfo 

 fogs and rains. 



From the 46 th degree we continued fleering W. 

 fometimes a little towards the S. or N. endeavouring 

 always to keep that latitude, though fometimes the 

 winds obliged us to aker our courfe : for though they 

 were generally S. S. W. and S. W. though oftener in 

 the firit than the fecond; they fometimes came about to 

 the N. E. E. and S. E. and thefe changes were alv/ays 

 attended with hurricanes. 



On the fifth of Auguft we found ourfelves in the 

 lat. of 45 dep;. 14 min. and 24 deg. it; tnin. E. of the 

 meridian of Conception ; the wind, which till fix in 

 the evening of rhe foregoing day had been S. now be- 

 came calm ; and at two in the morning, we had it at 

 W. N. W. and N. W. from whence it veered N. about 

 to the E. and from thence again returned back to the 

 N. E. frefheniijg more than it had done before. Af- 

 terwards it began to blow in fqualls, and again fhifted 

 to the N. On the fixth, at eight in the evening, it 

 veered to the E. and two hours aíter to E. S. E. where 

 it continued till fix in the morning of the feventh, when 

 it fettled in tht S. E. and abated ; thougli its greateil 

 force here had never been fuch as to render it neccilary 

 for us to l;iy to, as had been the cafe before, and was 

 again afterwards. 



On the 7th, being in the latitude of 4-, ¿eg. 17 

 min. and the wind at S. at two in the afterno-un it fud- 

 denly flew about co the W. where its cxciemc violence 



obliged 



