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We made two obfervatiotis on. different days, and found our 

 latitude to be 55. 17. and W. Long, from S. Bias 32.9. 



The mountains near this port Or inlet are covered with the fame 

 trees as thofe at the other places, where we had landed, but I can 

 fay nothing with regard to the inhabitants, from what hath been 

 before ftated. 



To the S. we faw an ifland of a moderate height, at the dif- 

 tance of fix leagues, which We named S. Carlos, and failed on 

 the 29th with a gentle breeze at N. but which fell calm at noon, 

 when we were oppofite to a bare ifland, which fcarcely appeared 

 above the fea ; there are many rocks however, both to the E. and 

 W. Here we anchored in 22 fathoms, and about two leagues 

 diftant from the ifland of S. Carlos. 



In this fituation we cbferved a Cape, which we named St. 

 Auguftine, at the diftance of four or five leagues ; after which the 

 coaft trended to the E. fo much that we loft fight of it. We 

 found alfo that there were here fuch violent currents in oppofite 

 directions, that we could not found. As thefe currents rofe and 

 fell with the tide, it fhould feem that this inlet hath no commu- 

 nication but with the fea. 



This cape S. Auguftine is nearly in 55 N. Lat. and we having 

 heard that in a former voyage D. Juan Perez had difcovered an 

 arm of the fea in this fame parallel, where there were many cur- 

 rents, we juftly concluded this muft be the fame, though feveral 

 feamen who were in that voyage, did not recollect either the cape 

 or mountains in the neighbourhood, but this probably arofe from 

 their not approaching them in the fame direction. 



What we obferved on this part of the coaft ftrongly inclined 

 us to have a more perfect knowledge of it; the wind however (it 

 being new moon J became variable, and fixed at laft in the 

 S. W. 



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