A VOYAGE TO 
' / ■ ; G H A P T E R V. 
Profperciis paffage from Rio to the Cape— Account of the Harbours 
there— 'The Cape of Good Hope ?iot the moft Southern poird — Height 
of Table Mountain and others — Supinenefs of the European na- 
tions in negle5iing to occupy the Cape — -hive flock laid in — De- 
parture — Separation of the fleet — Arrival of the Supply at Botany 
Bay. ' ' ' 
Profperous courfe by fea, like a ftate of profound 
peace and tranquility in civil fociety, though moft 
1787. advantageous to thoie who enjoy it, is unfavourable to 
the purpofes of narration. The flriking fads which 
the Avriter exerts himfelf to record, and the reader is 
eager to perufe, arife only from difficult lituations : uni- 
■ form profperity is defcribed in very few words. Of this 
• ■ ■ acceptable but unprodu6live kind was the paffage of the 
Botany Bay fleet from Rio de Janeiro to the Gape of 
' . Good Hope ; uniformly favourable, and not marked by 
any extraordinary incidents. This run, from about lat. 22° 
foiith, long. 43 weiL of London, to lat, 34'' fouth, long. 
18° eail of London, a difaince of about four thoufand 
. Q , miles. 
