350 A V O Y A G E T O Book IX. 



bank in the latitude of 46 deg. and on this account 

 we again flood from it. 



Om the 2d of Auguft, being in the latitude of 45 

 deg. 30 min. fee. 27 deg. 2 min. E. of Concep- 

 tion, we founded, and found 70 fathom water, and 

 the bottom rocky. We continued our foundings 

 every day, and found the bottom as fpecified in the 

 following table : 



Days 



Latitude 



Long. 



from 



Fathom 



of Bottom 



Colour of 







Merid. of 



Water 



the Water 









Conception 









4 Aug. 



45 



14 



24 



38 



40 



fmall gravel 



green 





45 



IZ 



23 



50 



48 



brown gravel 



whiti{h 



i 



45 



8 



22 



56 



48 



ftony 



fea blue 



6 



45 



9 



22 



30 



50 



ditto 



ditto 



6 



45 



II 



21 



51 



55 



fmall gravel and fand 1 

 of difFeient colours j 



I light blue 



7 



45 



iS 



19 



53 



35 



coarfe white fand and 1 

 fmall gr.avel I 



dark blue 



8 



45 



23 



20 



12 



45 



coarfe fand of all co- 1 



> whitifli 











lours and fmall gravel j 



\ green 



8 



45 



26 



20 



7 no bottom at 

 80 fathoai 





ditto 



9 



45 



20 



19 



12 



ditto 





light blue 



10 



45 



16 



17 



14 



45 



ftony 



C of a bluifli 

 I green 





45 



19 



16 



t2 no bottom at 





dark green 







i 



So fathom 





July the 27th, in the latitude of 45 deg. 54 min. 

 and 32 deg. 6 min. E. of Conception, we faw fome 

 birds as it were fporting on the water. The fize of 

 them was fomething lefs than a wood-pigeon, and all 

 over black except the tail which was white. They 

 who are convcrfant in thefe voyages fay, that they 

 are feen at a great diftance from the bank and thus 

 we found it, being obliged to leiTen our longitude 

 5 deg. to return to our firft foundings. We alfo faw 

 two birds of that kind called Penguins, of which 

 there are great numbers on the bank : and tho' in the 

 common opinion thefe birds never fly to any great 

 diftance from it, we found it otherwif^. Thefe Pen- 

 guins are of the bignefs and (hape of a goofe, alfo 

 with little or no tail. They fly againft the courfe of 



the 



