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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. Olf the north end, the rock or islet 

 named Mono Cacada (significant I suppose of its being co- 

 vered M'ith the dung of birds), leaves a considerable open 

 space between it and the main island. 



Our chronometers a;uve the longitude of the north end of 

 Prince's island 7° ; the variation, by the mean of many 

 observations, 2 1" 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 ofl" shore in l6" 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 nsoisture, 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 



