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of St. Anna, being little conical, but rather a round topped 
mountain, of the probable elevation of 7 or 8000 feet, with 
a gap in the summit. Off the north end, the rock or islet 
named Mono Cacada (significant I suppose of its being co- 
vered with the dung of birds), leaves a considerable open 
space between it and the main island. 
Our chronometers gave the longitude of the north end of 
Prince’s island 7°; the variation, by the mean of many 
observations, 21°22'W. ‘The same watch makes the N. W. 
point of St. Thomas in 6°31’, and Rolle’s island, at the 
south end, in 6°44’; the variation at this end of the island 
22°'7'. 
The winds now came more westerly, but were at the 
same time so light, that our progress was most tiresomely 
slow; I therefore determined to make the continent, in 
the hope of finding land and sea breezes in shore ; and ac- 
cordingly we first saw it on the morning of 3d of June, 
and at noon were three leagues off shore in 16 fathoms, 
latitude observed 2° 10’S.; the land very low and entirely 
covered with wood. 
The atmosphere for the two days before making the land, 
had become so saturated with moisture, that the hygrome- 
ter at noon marked 5°, and the thermometer stood at 71°. 
At 7 o'clock in the evening a dew, little less penetrating 
