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current to the east precedes the change of the 

 wind. It begins to be felt at first during a 

 calm ; and after some days, the wind itself 

 follows the current, and becomes fixed in the 

 west. While these phenomena last, the course 

 of the small barometrical tides is in no degree- 

 interrupted. 



On the 21st of November at sunrise, we 

 were to the west of Cape Codera, opposite Cu- 

 ruao. The Indian pilot was affrighted at see- 

 ing an English frigate to the north, at a mile 

 distant. We were no doubt taken for one of 

 those boats, which carry on a contraband trade 

 with the West India islands, and which (for 

 every thing becomes regularly established in 

 time,) were furnished with licences, signed by 

 the governor of Trinidad. We were not even 

 hailed by the ships boats, which appeared to 

 approach us. From Cape Codera the coast 

 is rocky, and very high, and presents scenes 

 at once savage and picturesque. We were near 

 enough the land to distinguish scattered huts 

 surrounded by cocoa-trees and spots covered 

 with vegetation, which studded the dark ground 

 of the rocks. The mountains are every where 

 perpendicular, and three or four thousand feet 

 high ; their sides cast broad and deep shadows 

 upon the humid land, which extends to the sea, 

 and glows with the freshest verdure. This 

 shore produces in great part the fruits of the 



