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A Voyage to 



Choros 

 JJland. 



Channaral 

 Jfland. 



Quebrada 



honda 



Break 



Guafco Bay* 



might get off, becaufe there is a Paffage ; but befides that 

 it is dangerous, and little frequented, the Tides fet upon 

 the Iflands, where fome Spanifto Ships have perifli'd : For 

 which Reafon, if the Land Breeze is not fix'd, a Ship muft 

 not go out but with the S. S. W. Breeze, and run fome 

 Leagues W. N. W. to get enough to Seaward of thofe 

 Iflands, which thzSfanijJo Pilots Jhun as a Shoal in a Calm, 

 and the more, for that the Tides are not known to be re- 

 gular. However, I do not think the Cafe is the fame 

 for the inner Part of the Bay: I thought I obferv'd that the 

 Delay was not that of the Moon's paffing to the Meridian, 

 but perhaps of the Third Part, or of a Quarter of an Hour. 

 I do not affirm any thing as to this Particular : Such an 

 Obfervation would require feveral Months to be fatisfy'd. 



At length, on the 7th of June about Four in the Morn- 

 ing, we got out with the Wind at Eaft. At Noon I took an 

 Obfervation Weft of the Rock Paxaro Ninno, which 1 found 

 to be in 29 Degrees, 55 Minutes of South Latitude, as 

 has been faid before. The Breeze coming up, we in the 

 Night pafs'd by the Ifland Choros, which is four Leagues 

 North from thofe of Paxaros, and even thought in the Dark 

 that we had fome Sight of it. 



The next Morning we found ourfelves four . Leagues N« 

 W. and by N. of the Ifland of Channaral, joiird to the 

 Continent by a Bank of Sand, which the Sea covers with 

 a North Wind : It is four Leagues from the Iflatld of Cho- 

 ros, and 16 from Point Tortuga. This Ifland is almoft 

 plain, and very fmall. 



Four or five Leagues farther Northward, they fliew'd 

 me a white Spot near a Break, call'd (htebvada honda, or 

 the Deep Break, above which there are rich Copper Mines., 



Afterwards, towards the Evening, we defcry'd the Bay 

 of Guafco, where there is good Anchorage in 18 or 20 

 Fathom Water, very near the Land. That Port is not 

 frequented, becaufe there is no other Trade but that of a 

 private PerfQn 3 who takes Copper out of the Mines, It is 



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