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II. A Letter from Philip Carteret Lf quire? 
Captain of the Swallow Sloop, to 
Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. on the 
Inhabitants of the Coaft of Patagonia. 
On board the Swallow, in Port Famine, 
Streights of Magellan, nth January, 
1767. 
S I R, 
Read Jan. 25, K| H E Patagonians having made fo 
much noife of late in Europe, and 
particularly in England, I imagine a more particular 
and certain account of them will not be difagreeable 
to my good friend Dodor Maty. 
In the morning of the 16th December, 1766, we 
were dole in with the entrance of the river Galle- 
goes; the country about which river, I have fome 
reafon to imagine, is the place of their common 
abode. I fhall forbear to mention my reafons for this 
fuppolition, as it would take too much room in this 
letter. From thence we failed along in fight of 
the fhore as far as cape Virgin Mary, which is the 
northermoft promontory of the eaftermoft entrance 
of the (freights of Magellan. There feems to 
be but a fhort diftance over acrofs this kind of 
ifthmus to the river Gallegoes. As we 'kept failing 
along 
