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funken rocks in the mid-channel. The 

 ifland is above feventy leagues round ; 

 and the body of it lies in about 40 deg. 

 20 min. fouth, and is the moft fouthern 

 fettlement the Spaniards have in thefe 

 feas. Their fummer is of no long du- 

 ration, and moft of the year round they 

 have hard gales of wind and much rain, 

 Oppofue the ifland, upon the Cordilleras, 

 there is a volcano, which, at times, 

 burns with great fury, and is fubjecT: to 

 violent eruptions. One of thefe alarmed 

 the whole ifland, whilft we were here : it 

 founded in the night like great guns. 

 In the morning, the governor mounted 

 his horfe, and rode backwards and 

 forwards from his houfe to the 

 earthen fort, faying it was the Eng- 

 lifli coming in, but that he would give 

 them a warm reception ; meaning, I fup- 

 pofe, that he would have left them a good 

 fire in his houfe 5 for I am certain he 

 would foon have been in the woods, if 



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