A Voyage to 



Vejcripiion of the Bay of Valparaifo. 



TN order to enter the Port of Valparaifo, upon turning the 

 * Point, Ships muft range clofe along the Shoal, which 

 iliews itfeif within about half a Cable's Length from the 

 Shore, for getting to the Windward. That Rock is very 

 fafe 9 for we have feen a Spanijh Ship in a Calm, within a 

 Boat's Length of it, without touching. When Ships keep 

 too far from it, they are obliged to make many Trips to 

 recover the Anchoring-Place, as happened to us. We 

 came to an Anchor on the 5th of September, in 27 Fathom 

 Water, the Bottom gray Owze, inclining to an Olive Co- 



'Mnchring at Jour, the Point of Valparaifo, bearing N. E. and by N. 



Valparaifo. the white Battery W. S.W. and Cape C^ow Rand by E. 



As foon as our Anchor was down, we faluted the Fort 

 with feven Guns, and it anfvver'd with one. We found 

 in the Road the Concord, and feven Spanijh Ships lading 

 Corn for Callao. 



Thofe Ships generally rim in fo clofe to the Shore, that 

 they have three Anchors on the Land, made faft to Stones, 

 or Piles, and at that diftanee they ftill have eight or ten 

 Fathom Water ,* that Way of making faft is very good, be- 

 caufe in the Summer, every Day regularly about Noon, the 

 Breezes come up at S. W.andS. fo ftrong, that they make 

 the beft Anchors give way? However, Care muft be taken 

 of a Shoal, that is within a Cable's Length of the Shore, near 

 the Battery call'd Caftillo Blanco, or, Yhe White Caflle, on 

 which there is not above thirteen or fourteen Foot Water 

 at the Ebb. The Ajfumption commanded by Champloret 

 touch'd there lightly one Day, becaufe the Sea rifes and 

 falls fix or feven Foot. In other refpe&s, the Bay is very 

 fafe, and Ships may turn and anchor every where from 

 fifty to eight Fathom Water > only Care mull be taken 

 when they take a Trip towards the Siete Hermanas^ or 

 Seven Sijlers, that is, to the Eaftward, not to draw nearer 

 the Shore; than two Cables Length and a half, oppofite to 



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