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In the paffage from the Cape Ferd IJIands, the fleet c h^a p. 
fiifFered for fome time the inconvenience of great heat, >^-— » 
attended by heavy rains. The heatj however, did not at • 
any time exceed the point ah^eady fpecified/- and the 
precautions unremittingly obferved in all the fliips hap- ' 
pily continued efficacious in preventing any violent fick- 
nefs. Nor did the oppreffion of the hot weather continue 
fo long as in thefe latitudes might have been expe6ted ; 
for before they reached the equator the temperature had ; 
become much more moderate. 
On July 5, 1787, being then in long. 26° 10' weft juiy 5th, 
from Greenwich J the Botany Bay fleet pafled from the 
Northern into the Southern Hemifphere. About three 
weeks more of very favourable and pleafant weather 
conveyed them to Rio de Janeiro. On the cth of Aug. 5th and 
6:h, 1787,. 
Augufl: they anchored off the harbour, and on the even- 
ing of the 6th were at their flation within it. The land 
of Cape Frio had been difcovered fome days before, but 
a deficiency of wind from that time a little flackened 
their courfe. 
PJo de Janeiro^ or January River.) fo called becaufe 
difcovered by Dias de Solis on the feafl of St. Januariusj 
* 82,°, 51. It is not unufual in England, to have the thermometer, for a day. or 
two in, a fummer, at 8l°.. 
■ - ;v • (Sept. 
