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Error in the Being always upon our Guard againft the Currents, and 

 tUrts. the Errors in the Dutch Charts, which place Cape Blanc 

 four Degrees more to the Weftward than it really is, as 

 has been obferv'd by all the Ships that have put into S. Ka- 

 tharine^ whence they have taken their Point, we began to 

 found at 43 Degrees, 3 o Minutes Latitude, and, accord- 

 ing to my Computation, 52 Degrees, 33 Minutes Longi- 

 tude, finding no Bottom ; but in 46 Degrees, 50 Minutes 

 Latitude, and 58 Degrees, 8 Minutes Longitude, we 

 found 85 Fathom Water, the Bottom gray Sand mix'd 

 ivith reddifli. I reckon'd we were then 50 Leagues from 

 Cape Blanc, by a Manufcript Chart of Grifon, Mafter of 

 Navigation of S. Malo ; that is, 321 Degrees, 52 Minutes 

 Longitude, from the Meridian of the Ifland Ferro or H/- 

 err.o ; or 3 23 Degrees, 3 2 Minutes, from that of Teneriffy 

 which agreed well enough with the Soundings of fome 

 Ships which had feen that Cape. Whence it may be con- 

 cluded, that, without regard to its exa& Longitude, it is 

 wrong laid down with refped to that of S. Katharine. It 

 has been effectually obferv'd, that the Defart Coaft, or of 

 the Patagons^ does not lie S. W. and S. W. and by W. as 

 we fee it in the Charts, but S. W. and by S. and S. S. W. 

 which has brought many Ships into Danger. About 13 

 Leagues to the S. W. beyond our firft Sounding, we found 

 » 75 Fathom Water ^ four Leagues farther on, ftill holding 

 the fame Courfe, we had 70, then 6<5, the Bottom ftill 

 the fame, as far as 49 Degrees and a half Latitude, where, 

 in 75 Fathom, it was mix'd with Gravel, Owze, broken 

 Shells, and little black and yellow Stones. In 50 Degrees, 

 20 Minutes, the Sand grows a little blackifli, 60 and 65 

 Fathom Water. Still ftanding S. W. within fome fmall 

 Difference to the South, or Weft, in order infenfibly to 

 draw near the Coaft at 5 2 Degrees, 30 Minutes Latitude, 

 and 65 Degrees, 45 Minutes Longitude, the Sand was 

 gray, mix'd with little black and reddifli Stones, in 55 

 Fathom Water. The Night between the 5th and 6th of 

 May, we lay by, for Fear of ranging too near the Land, 



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