TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



runs lengthwise through the greater part of the 

 island of the same name, and is a great advantage 

 to navigation, as a mark in these seas, where there 

 are so many rocks and shoals. In the afternoon 

 we passed the island of Sansego. The wind now 

 increased, so that during the whole night we never 

 sailed less than five leagues in an hour by the 

 Illyrian islands of Grossa and Coronata ; and the 

 following morning we were in the latitude of 

 Ortona. 



At sunrise we saw the island of St. Andrea ; 

 at noon, Brasso ; and soon after, the Pomo, an 

 insulated rock in the form of a sugar-loaf) with a 

 beetling point on the north side ; w^hich was an 

 agreeable sign to us of the rapid progress of our 

 voyage. In the afternoon it was N. N. E. of us ; 

 and the larger island of Lissa, which concealed 

 Lessina from us, appeared afterward, in the mist, 

 to the north-east. All these islands still belong to 

 the limestone formation of the Golfo di Quarnero. 

 On the Italian coast we perceived the most south- 

 ern promontory of the Garganus Mons, the Monte 

 St. Angelo, which was covered with snow very low 

 down, an appearance which agreed with the cold 

 observed by us (the thermometer had never risen 

 above 8° Reaumur), Manfredonia, the saline 

 coasts of Salapia, and the mouths of the renowned 

 Aufidus, in the neighbourhood of which Hannibal 

 humbled the Roman pride, gradually vanished ; 

 while Cuzzola, Cazziol, Agosta, and then in the 



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