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remarkable hill, nearly level at the top, but near the east extreme 

 of it there are two small hummocks ; the east fall is very steep, 

 the end of another range of hills shews to the northward. To 

 the S.W., apparently forming part of the same range, is another 

 hill, the west side of which forms a steep bluff ; in coming from 

 the southward, these hUls wiU be seen in clear weather, before 

 the land about the port can be made out. From a fisherman, who 

 knew the coast to the southward, we learned that the small port we 

 passed the night in, to the northward of Port Herradura, is called 

 Matamores ; the high point to the southward of it is Point Mata- 

 mores. Tortoral, or Tortoral baxo, is the bay between it and Pajonal. 

 He described it as having always a heavy surf in it, and the landing 

 bad. The south point of the Bay of Salado, vdth the islet off it, 

 is called Point losCachos. He was in the vessel that took the carso 

 of copper from Barranquilla. She was a large brig of 300 tons, 

 and was anchored off the mouth of the cove. The island to the 

 north of Copiapo Bay, called Isla Grande, is very remarkable ; it 

 has a small nipple on each extreme, that on the eastern is the 

 highest : to the westward of the middle of the island, there is ano- 

 ther small round nipple. 



The channel between Isla Grande and the main is clear of danger 

 in the middle ; but such a heavy swell rolls through, that it is 

 scarcely fit for any vessel. Off the north extreme of the island 

 there is a reef under water, projecting two cables to the eastward ; 

 at a cable's length distance from the reef we had eight fathoms ; the 

 point on the main appeared to have no danger off it ; the rocks to 

 the southward of it are inside the line of the points. The swell in 

 the channel was by far the worst we had experienced on this coast : 

 to the northward of the island there are several small rocks, one of 

 which is high. There is no danger within a quarter of a mile of 

 them. 



The point on the main, to the northward of the islcind, is very 

 rocky ; on the S.W. point there are two rugged hummocks, and 

 several rocks and islets close to the shore, but no danger outside 

 them : from this to Point Morro, the shore is steep and cliffy, with 

 remarkable patches of white rock in the cUffs to the south of the 

 point, which is steep, with rugged lumps on its summit. The 

 Morro rises suddenly, a Uttle in-shore. 



On rounding the point, you open a deep bay which runs in to the 



