A Voyage to 



Rock almofl: rotthd, rifing about jo or tfoFathoffis abovrS 

 the Water, and near about four Cables Length Diameter, 

 fo that it may be feen at four or five Leagues Diftance ; 

 and therefore it is not dangerous, and the more becaufe there 

 is no Bottom all about it, which he had the Curiofity to 

 be fatisfy'd in one Day when he was becalm'd very near 

 , it, having fent his Boat to found quite round it. Mr. 

 Halley in his Chart has alfo left out all thofe Shoals, as 

 well as thofe of the Azores ; but as I have {aid elfewhere, 

 he has without Reafon omitted the Ifland of the Afcenfion, 

 to confound it with that of the Trinity. The fame Cap- 

 tain I am fpeaking of, confirmed to us, that they were 

 really two diftinft Iflands, and fituated very near as laid 

 •down in the Dutch Charts, in refpeft to one another, 

 Doubtlefs the other Ifland of the Afcenfion, which is about 

 fix Degrees, near enough to the firft Meridian, made 

 Mr. Halley judge that the other which is diftinguifli'd by 

 th^Portugeze"Hm\t o£Acenfaon } was Suppofititious. Let 

 us return to the Voyage. 



We palfed, as has been faid, over an imaginary 

 Shoal, during the Night. The next Day, and the Day 

 after the Winds began to grow boifterous, and the Sea 

 ran high for fome Days, during the which our Mizzen- 

 Sail fplit, and our Main-Top-Maft gave way, fo that 

 we were obliged to change it immediately. During the 

 firft Days that we made from the Iflands, we found 

 fome little Difference with the Reckning to the South-; 

 ward. 



As foon as we were about half way over between 

 the Azores and the Continent, the Wind became more 

 favourable, and the Sea fmoother 5 and on the 31ft of 

 jf#/y we arrived at the Mouth of the Streights y without 

 any fenfible Error ; whence it may be concluded that thofe 

 Iflands are rightly kid down in the Grand Flambeau de la 

 Mer« 



Paffing 



