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the laft day we alfo faw feveral rabij uncos. On the 

 I ft of July we again had fight of the above-mentioned 

 brown birds, but without any of the other two 

 fpecies : and on the 3d, being in 27 deg. 34 min. 

 latitude, and 32 deg. 27 min. E. of Conception, wc 

 faw no kind of large fifh, though abundance of the 

 flying fifh. 



On the 8th, being in 34 deg. 31 min. latitude, we 

 again had fight of the Dorados ; and likewife faw a 

 middle-fized bird all black, which for a long time 

 continued hovering about the Ihips. On the 9th in 

 the evening, we were furprized with the appearance 

 of a fmall whale; and on the 10th in the morning, 

 being in the latitude 36 deg. 57 min. and 32 deg. 

 6 min. E. of Conception, we faw feveral birds of a 

 middling fize, with long and broad wings, the neck, 

 head and tail black, and the other parts of the body 

 white. 



On the loth, being in 36 deg. 57 min. latitude, 

 and 32 deg. 6 min. E. of Conception, by my 

 reckoning, according to which, and likewife in the 

 Dutch and common French chart, the ifiand of Flo- 

 res, one of the Azores, lay E.N.E. 2 degrees N. dif- 

 tance 112 leagues. In the French chart are fet 

 down fome iflands, which, as being of later difco- 

 very, do not occur in the Dutch : among thefe is 

 Santa Ana bearing weftward five leagues-, but by 

 the new French chart, the ifiand of Flores lay E.N.E. 

 5 deg. eafterly, and at the diftance of 167 leagues. 

 All this morning we had a cockling fea coming 

 from the N. W. and by W. which we conjedured 

 might proceed from the proximity of the ifland of 

 Santa Ana, as by our reckoning it muft have been 

 very near us. 



On the r7th being in 41 deg. 49 min. latitude, 

 and 36 deg. 48 min. E. of Conception, we were 

 amufed with the fight of vaft flights of birds, of a 

 middling bignefs, and of a brown colour intermixed 



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