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verffowM, the high Mountains over k appearing always 

 cover'd with Snow; which is a fenfible Effect of the 

 Roundnefs of the Sea, which appears confiderably info 

 fmall a Diftance. 



Coquimbo When a Ship has Sight of the Bay of Coquimbo^ it is 

 Bay bow eight Leagues to the Southward of Coquimfo, and muft keep 

 hwrh U p w ith the Land to fee the Mouth of the Bay, and get to 

 the Windward, the South and S. W. always prevailing 

 there, except two or three Months in Winter. Short of 

 it, about three Quarters of a League to the Windward, is 

 Herradura the Mouth of a little Creek, call'd "La Herradura, or the 

 Greek Horfe-lliooe, about two Cables Length wide : Next to the 

 Leeward appear three or four Rocks, the largeft of 

 Faxaro Nin- them, which is fartheft out at Sea, call'd Paxaro Ninno^ is 



Tortuil t ' ie ^ ^ arc °^ a *- ea § ue N.W. and by N. from Point Tor- 

 faimF* tuga^ being the Starboard Point of the Continent that clofes 

 the Port o£ Coqui?nbo. To the Southward of that firft Rock, 

 which lies in the Latitude of 29 Degres, 55 Minutes, is a 

 little Ifland fomewhat fmaller, between which and the 

 Continent is a Paffage of 17 Fathom Water, but very 

 narrow, through which fome Trench Ships foolimly pafs'd 

 for the Mouth of the Bay is about two Leagues and a half 

 wide, and without any Danger.. 



Defcripfon of the Bay of Coquimbo; 



IT is true, that by reafon the Wittds blow continually 

 from S. to S. W. it is convenient to keep clofe to the 

 Starboard Point, and run clofe under the aforefaid Rock,', 

 calPct Paxaro Ninna, which is clear within a Boat's Length, 

 to gain, at the fewer Trips, the good Anchoring Ground,', 

 call'd the Port, which is within half a Cable's Length 

 J$*m^ of the Weft Shore. There they anchor from fix to 

 ten Fathom Water, the Bottom black Sand^ near a Rock 

 ten or twelve Foot long, which rifes five or fix Foot 

 above the Water,, fliaped like a Tortois, from which 

 k lakes its, tferae^ Ship* are flieltsr'd from aU Winds;,', 



