the South- Sea. 3 1 



and with good Reafon ; for the next Morning we found 

 the Sea much chang'd, and about the Evening we &\ko- Arrival at 

 vcr'd a Low-land very plain, and five or fix Hillocks like 

 Iflands, which bore W.S.W, nine or ten Leagues diftant. ^ rr Q a del 

 Some took it for Cape Virgins, on the Credit of Journals, ueg °* 

 which place it in 52 Degrees, 30 Minutes, tho' it be more 

 to the Northward in the Charts but that Opinion did not 

 anfwer our laft Obfervation of Latitude. It is much more 

 likely that it was the Cape of the Holy Ghoft in Tierra del 

 Fuego. We heav'd the Lead, and found 36 Fathom Wa- 

 ter, the Bottom a black Sand, mix'd with little Stones of 

 the fame Colour. 



The next Day, being the 7th, we diftin&ly faw Tierra 

 del Fuego, which we coafted along, at four or five Leagues 

 Diftance. It is indifferent high, craggy in Precipices 

 along the Shore, and appears wooded in Tufts : Over that 

 firft Coaft appear high Mountains, almoft ever cover'd with 

 Snow. The Bearing of that Coaft of the Ifland Fuego, 

 may be afcertain'd to N. W. and by N. and S. E. and by S. 

 in refpeft of the World, from the Streight of Magellan to 

 that of le Make, correcting a Half Rumb, or 23 Degrees 

 of Variation N. E. 



Having traced Tierra del Fuego till within five or fix 

 Leagues of Streight le Maire,, we lay by, about four 

 Leagues out at Sea, during the Night, in order to pafs it 

 the next Day. We had there 40 Fathom Water, the Bot- 

 tom large clean Sand, as in Roads. That Night we felt 

 heavy Blafts at S. W. by Squawls, or Guffs, which brought 

 us Snow and Sleet from the Mountains up the Country : 

 However, we fell off but little, a certain Sign that the 

 Current was not violent, or that it fet towards the Wind, 

 which is not very likely, by Reafon of theoppofite Bearing 

 of the Coaft. 



Sunday the 8th of May, we fail'd for the Streight of Streight k 

 le Maire, and eafily knew it by three uniform Hills, calFd ^^/^ 

 the Three Brothers, contiguous to one another, in Tierra C6mr ' 

 del Fuego y over which, there appears an high Sugar-loaf 



Mountain 



