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grees, 45 minutes eaft of Conception, the winds ge- 

 nerally being S. S. W. and W. S. W. One day only 

 we had them at N. W. and W. N. W. and this was on 

 the 23d after a very violent ftorm, which began at 

 twelve in the night of the 2 2d, at E. S. E. whence at 

 fix m the morning the wind flew about to the S. and S, 

 one quarter wefterly, whilft we lay to under our main- 

 fail-, and, when the wind offered, made way under 

 that and a topfail with a reef in both ; befides the 

 high feas which fuch a ftorm naturally occafioned, we 

 had alfo fogs and rains. 



From the 46th degree we continued fleering W. 

 fometimes a little towards the S. or N. endeavouring 

 always to keep that latitude, though fometimes the 

 winds obliged us to alter our courfe : for though they 

 were generally S. S. W. and S. W. though oftner in 

 the firft than the fecond ^ they fometimes came about 

 to the N. E. E. and S. E. and thefe changes were al- 

 ways attended with hurricanes. 



On the fifth of Auguft we found ourfelves in the 

 lat. of 45 deg. 14 min. and 24 deg. 16 min. E. of the 

 meridian of Conception the wind, which till fix in 

 the evening of the foregoing day had been S. now be- 

 came calm ; and at two in the morning, we had it at 

 W. N. W. and N. W. from whence it veered N. about 

 to the E. and from thence again returned back to the 

 N. E. frefhening m.ore than it had done before. Af^ 

 terwards it began to blow in fqualls, and again fhifted 

 to the N. On the fixth, at eight in the evening, it 

 veered to the E. and two hours after to E. S. E. where 

 it continued till fix in the morning of the feventh, 

 when it fettled in the S. E. and abated though its 

 greateil force here had never been fuch as to render it 

 neceffary for us to lay to, as had been the cafe before, 

 and was again afterwards. 



On the 7th, being in the latitude of 45 deg. 1 7 

 min. and the wind at S. at two in the afternoon it fud- 

 denly flew about to the W. where its extreme violence 



oblige4 



