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repeated obfervations at a mile's diftance we found the W. Long, 

 from St. Bias to be 34. 12. 



From this cape we fixed the principal points on the coaft, as 

 will appear by our chart. 



On the 17th the wind blew moderate from the S. by means 

 of which we entered a bay that was three leagues wide at its 

 mouth, and which was protected' from the N. by cape del Enganno \ 

 on the oppolite fide to this cape we discovered a port more than 

 a league wide at the entrance, perfectly fecure from all winds 

 but the S. We nearly approached the fides of this bay, and 

 never found lefs than fifty fathoms in depth ; but we could not 

 perceive any kind of flat or plain, as the mountains come quite 

 down to the more Notwithftanding this we diftinguiihed a 

 fmall river, which (it being night} we did not further attend to, 

 but caft anchor in 66 fathoms, the bottom being a clay, as we 

 found upon drawing up our anchors. 



This port is fituated in 57.11 N. Lat. and 34^ 12. W. Long, 

 from S. Bias ; which, together with the headland, we named 

 Guadelupe. 



On the 1 Sth we failed again, with little wind \ when two 

 canoes, with four Indians in each, appeared (viz. two men and 

 two women) who, however, did not feem to wifti to come on 

 board us, but only made figns that we mould go on more. 



We continued our courfe however (the wind being N. W.) 

 till nine in. the morning, when we entered another port, not fo 

 large indeed, but the adjacent country much more defirable to 

 navigators, as a river empties itfelf here of eight or ten feet wide, 

 whilft the harbour is protected from almofV every wind, by 

 means of a long ridge of high iflands, almoft joining each other, 

 with anchorage of 18 fathoms, the bottom being a fand. Here 

 we caft anchor at a phlox's fhot from the land, where we faw, on 



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