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The village of Tongoy consists of half a dozen small houses, built 

 on a high point at the south side of the peninsula. 



The coast on the west side of Huanaquero Hill is broken and 

 rocky, affording no shelter for any thing but a boat ; to the north- 

 ward there is a deep bay, well sheltered from southerly and westerly 

 winds, but open to the northward : between this and Port Herradura 

 there is no place fit for a vessel. 



Herradura and Coquimbo are well known. Teatinos is a bold 

 rugged point, the land behind it rising in ridges, which gradu- 

 ally become higher as they recede from the coast to Copper Hill, 

 which is 6,400 feet high. The point which makes as the north 

 extremity of the bay, in coming from the northward, is a low rocky 

 point, called Poroto ; about four miles to the northward of Point 

 Poroto, is the port of Arrayan, or Juan Soldado ; but it does not 

 deserve the name : it is merely a small bight behind a rocky point, 

 scarcely affordmg shelter for a boat from southerly winds, and en- 

 tirely open to northerly. A little to the northward of Copper Hill is 

 another hiU, on the same range and about the same height : the 

 north side of the hill is steep, and at the foot of it is the small Bay 

 of OsoRNO, which is about half a mile long, but not deep enough to 

 afford any shelter for the smallest vessel. About half a mile to the 

 northward of the bay there is a hamlet, consisting of a few small 

 houses, called Yerba Buena. 



The Pajaros Islands are two low rocky islands, lying about 

 twelve miles from the coast ; the northern is much smaller than the 

 southern, and, as far as could be seen from the shore, there is no 

 danger round or between them. A little to the northward of Yerba 

 Buena there is a small island, called Trigo, separated from the shore 

 by a channel about a cable's length broad ; but it is only fit for boats ; 

 the island, oxcept when very close, appears to be only a projecting 

 point ; there is a large white rock on the west point of it. 



About three miles to the northward of Trigo Island, is the Port 

 of ToRTORALiLLO, which is formed by a small bay facing the north, 

 with three small islands off the west point. In coming from the 

 southward, the best entrance for small vessels is between the south- 

 ernmost island and the point, where there is a channel about a cable's 

 length wide, with from eight to twelve fathoms water. Tlie dry rock 

 off the point on the main land, should not be approached nearer than 

 half a cable, as a sunken rock lies nearly that distance from it. There 



