QG8 



API'KXDIX. 



After rounding Inner Point you may anchor where convenient, in 

 quiet still water, with from four to seven fathoms, over a muddy bot- 

 tom. The landing jDlace is at the mole about the centre of the town. 



N. 41°. W., nine leagues and a half from the town of Payta, is 

 Point Paeina, a bluff, about eighty feet high, with a reef to the 

 distance of half a mile on its west side ; between this point and 

 Payta the coast is low and sandy, with table land of a moderate 

 height, a short distance from the beach ; and the mountain of Ama- 

 tape five leagues in the interior. 



After rounding Point Parina (which is the western extreme of 

 South America), the coast trends abruptly to the northward, and 

 becomes higher and more chiij^ until you reach Point Talara. This 

 is a double point, the southern part of which is cliffy ; about eighty 

 feet high, with a smaU black rock lying off it ; the northern part is 

 much lower, and has few breakers near. On the north side of this 

 point is a shallow bay, in the depth of which the high cliffy coast 

 again commences, and runs in a line towards Cape Blanco. 



Cape Blanco is high and bold (apparently the corner of a long 

 range of table-land), sloping gradually toward the sea ; near the 

 extreme of the cape there aie two shaq> topped hillocks.; and midway 

 between them and the commencement of the table land, is another 

 rise with a sharp top. There are some rocks that shew themselves 

 about a quarter of a mile off^, but no danger exists without that dis- 

 tance. From Cape Blanco the general trend of the coast is more 

 easterly, in nearly a direct hne to Point Malpelo, which is twenty- 

 one leagues distant. 



N. 34° E., seven leagues and a half from the former is Point 

 Sal, a brown cliff", one hundred and twenty feet high ; along the 

 coast is a sandy beach, with high cliff as far as the valley of Mancora, 

 where it is low with brush wood near the sea ; the hills being- at a dis- 

 tance inland. 



Northward of Point Sal the coast is cliffy, to about midway 

 between It and Point Picos ; it then becomes lower, and similar to 

 Mancora. 



Point Picos is a sloping bluff, with a sandy beach outside it, and 

 another point, exactly similar, a little to the northward : at the back 

 of it is a cluster of hills with sharp peaks, hence arises, probably, 

 the name given by the Spaniards to this point. From Point Picos 

 the coast is a sandy beach, with a mixture of hill and cliff of a 



