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foutherly winds prevail upon this coaft, 

 we flood off a long way to the weftward, 

 making the ifland of Juan Fernandez. 

 We did not get into the bay of Conception 

 till the 6 th of January i 745, where we 

 anchored at Talcaguana, and there found 

 the Louis Erafme, the Marquis d'Antin, 

 and the Delivrance, the three French 

 Ihips that we were to accompany. It is 

 but fixty leagues from Valparaifo to Con- 

 ception, though we had been fo long 

 making this paffage but there is no 

 beating up, near the fhore, againft the 

 foutherly wind, which is the trade, at 

 this feafon, as you are fure to have a lee- 

 current ; fo that the quickeft way of 

 making a paflage is to Hand off a hun- 

 dred and twenty or thirty leagues from 

 the land. 



The bay of Conception is a large, fine 

 bay ; but there are feveral flioals in it, and 

 only two good anchoring-places, though 

 a fliip may anchor within a quarter of a 



league 



