Ch.VI. south AMERICA. 365 



Latitude. 



Lon 



ffitude. 



Vari 



ations. 



D. 



M. 



D. 



M. 



D. 



M. 



48 



45South JO 



30 V/eft 



14 



30 E. 





I ^ 



Q 



3oEaft 



24 



30 



4Q 





^3 



30 



19 



0 



40 



0 



2 7 





14 



0 





I ^ 



20 



0 



12 



30 



0 1 





50 



0 



12 



0 







20 

 6^ 



45 



II 



0 





0 



21 

 6 * 



40 



10 









9 0 

 00 



30 



9 



0 



27 



0 





15 



4 



0 



22 



^5 



og 



45 



2 



0 





20 



6^ 



27 



0 



I 



0 



7 



30 



41 



0 



0 



0 



I 



15 



4J 





2 



15 W. 



0 



0 



44 



0 



2 





9 



30 N. 



3B 





I 





1 1 



15 



28 



0 



I 



0 



1 1 



15 



14 



0 



4 



oE. 



In cape Francois or Guarico 5 1 5 

 The frigate arrived at the harbour of Guarico in the 

 iinofl: favourable time, five men of v/ar being then at 

 Leogan, another harbour in that iiland belonging to 

 the French, and expeded there in order to convoy a 

 fleet of merchantmen to Europe. 



Guarico lies on the N. W. fide of the ifland of 

 Saint Domingo in 19 deg. 45 min,48 fee. N, latitude, 

 and 73 deg. o min. 45 fee. wed of the meridian of 

 Paris, according to the obfervation of Don George 

 Juan taken on the fpot : the town is about one third of 

 a league in length, and contains between thirteen and 

 fifteen hundred inhabitants, who are a mixture of 

 Europeans, white creols, negroes, mulattoes and 

 cads \ but the laft the mod numerous. It is but a few 

 years fince that all the houfes in the town were of 

 wood but the greateft part of them having been 

 confumed by the unextinguilhabie rapidity of a fire, 



the 



