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CHAP. VÍ. 



'L)on George Juan's Voyage from la Conception to 

 GuARico in the JJland of San Domingo ; and from 

 thence to Brest in FrakcEj' together with his return 

 to Madrid. 



^T^HE frigate la Lys, having on the fifth of February, 

 parted company from the three others, on account 

 of her making fix inches water every hour, which 

 would naturally increafe by fhe working of the Ihip, 

 fleered direólly for Valparaiib, where making all pof- 

 fible difpatch in careening and watering, on the firft of 

 March Ihe was ready to put to fea. The winds, as is 

 ufiwl at that feafon, being at S. and S. W. the Lys was 

 obliged to ftand to the northward of the ifland of Juan 

 Fernandes; and drive till ilie was in the latitude of 

 32 deg. 18 min. where fhe fell in v/ith a wind ac S. E. 

 which carried her to the latitude of 35 deg, and 1 1 min. 

 wcfi: of the meridian of Valparaifo ; here it fliifted to 

 the S. W. and thence along the N. W. quarter to the 

 N. in which time the Lys only got into the latitude of 

 36° 30' being the 17th day of the month. Here the 

 wind veered to the S. and S. W. blowing very hard, 

 which caufed fuch a fea that "they v/ere obliged to lie to 

 under their main-fail. On the i8th, tho-jgh the vio- 

 lence of the wind abated, it continued in the fame 

 point; afterwards it changed to the W. and N. W. 

 where it continued till the ihip came into 40° 30' lati- 

 tude, ftill keeping the fame longitude of 11°. Here 

 ihe met with a fecond hard gale at fouth, which they 

 weathered in the fame manner, till it abated, fliifting 

 immcdiaicly to the S. W. weft, and N. W. 



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