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hoping thus to find the river of Martin Aquilar, and continued 

 this fearch till we were in Lat. 45. 50. when we diftinguifhed a 

 cape exactly refembling a round table, with fome red gullies b , 

 from which the coaft. trends to the S. W. From this part rife 

 ten fmall iflands, and fome others which are fcarcely above the 

 fea ; the Latitude of this Cape hath before been mentioned* and 

 its Longitude is 20. 4. W. from S. Bias. As we therefore could fee 

 nothing of Martin de Aquilar's River in this feeond trial, we con- 

 clude that it is not to be found, for we muft have difcovered it,, 

 if any fuch river was on this part of the coaft; % 



It is faid indeed that Aquilar obferved the mouth of this river 

 in 43 c , but the inftruments of thofe times ° were very imperfect. 

 Allowing the error however to have been in making the latitude 

 too high, and that therefore we might have found it in 42 or 

 lower ; yet this we can fcarcely conceive to be the truth, as we 

 examined all that part of the coaft, except about fifty minutes of 

 Latitude. 



After this laft return to the coaft, we endeavoured to make 

 for the port of S. Francifco, which having difcovered in 38. 18. 

 we entered a bay which is fufficiently fheltered from the N. and 

 S. W. We loon afterwards diftinguifhed the mouth of a con* 

 fiderable river, and fome way up a large port exactly refembling 

 a dock e ; we therefore concluded this to be the harbour of 

 S. Francifco (which we were in fearch of), as theHiftory of Cali- 

 fornia places it in 38. 4. 



b Barancas. 



c This is ftated before* when the river was looked out for ia that 

 latitude. 



d Viz. in 1603. 

 « Digue. 



We 



