WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
leagues to the weftward of Cape Frio. The entrance is good, 
and cannot be miflaken, on account of a remarkable hill, 
refembling»a fugar loaf, that is on the left hand iide ; and 
fome iflands before it, one of which is oblong, and does not, 
at fome diftance, look unlike a thatched houfe : they lie 
from the mouth of the harbour S. by W. about two leagues. 
Ships going in may run on either fide. The bar, over 
which we carried feven fathom water, is not more than three- 
fourths of a mile acrofs, and well defended by forts. The 
ftrongefl: is called Santa Cruz, built on a rock, on the ftar* 
board fide as you run in, from which every fhot fired at fhips 
pafling mufl: take efled. The other, named Fort Lozia, is 
fmaller, and built on an ifland or rock, on the larboard fide,, 
a little higher up, and lying contiguous to the main land. 
The tide in the harbour rarely ebbs and flows more than 
feven feet ; however, fhips, if pofTible, never anchor in this 
narrow pafs between the forts, as the bottom is foul, and 
the tide runs with confiderable rapidity. All danger in. 
going in, or running out, may be avoided by keeping the 
mid channel, or a little bordering on the ftarboard fhore. 
After Santa Cruz fort is pafTed, the courfe is nearly N. by W. 
and N. N. W. j but, as I before obferved, the eye is the befl 
pilot. 
