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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



meter, at ten o'clock at night, was only 15.5° R. in 

 the air, and 16.0° in the water; the hygrometer was 

 4S°„ and the araeometer, within the harbour, 2.75°, 

 and afterwards, in the open sea, 3°. The frigate 

 having taken on board a considerable supply of the 

 fine wine of the island, and being quite ready to sail, 

 we were obliged immediately to return on board. 



The 8th of June, in the morning, we weighed 

 anchor, and put out to sea. We were more for- 

 tunate on this occasion than the vessel which after- 

 wards conveyed Her Imperial Highness the Crown 

 Princess hither, and which, being driven too near 

 the coast by a sudden squall of wind from the 

 south, was obliged to cut both cables, in order to 

 get out to sea* The depth round the island is so 

 great, that it is only quite close to the shore, in 35 

 or 50 fathoms water, that a bottom can be found 

 for the anchors, which easily take hold in the basalt 

 rock : hence vessels are frequently obliged to go 

 to sea with the loss of their anchors, particularly 

 from the month of November to February, when 

 storms from the S.W. or S. E. threaten to dash 

 them against the coast. We left the road of Fun- 

 chal with a faint N. wind, but which soon veered 

 to E. and N.E., and remained favourableall the day. 

 At noon, the centre of the island bore N.E. byN. ; 

 our longitude was, according to the calculation of 

 the officers, 19°27'W. of Paris, our latitude SV 

 47' 17''» The wind increasing during the night, we 

 were already off the Canary Islands. The next morn- 



