PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
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Janeiro, extend to the before-mentioned cape, and often beyond it, to a CHAP, 
considerable offing. It was during the influence of one of these gales 
that we approached Cape Frio, and had no sooner opened the land 
on the western side of the promontory, than we were met by a long 
rolling swell fj om the south-west, gusts of wind, and unsettled weather ; 
and at noon encountered a violent squall, attended by thunder and 
lightning, which obliged us to take in every sail on the instant. To- 
wards sunset the weather cleared up, and we saw Cape Frio, N. W. 
by W., very distant. 
Calms and baffling winds succeeded this boisterous weather, so that 
on the morning of the 11th we were still distant from our port; and 
the daylight was gone, and with it the sea-breeze, before we could reach 
a p ace o rop our anchor. It, however, sometimes happens, fortunately 
or those who are late in making the entrance of the harbour, that 
in the interval between the sea and land breezes, gusts blow off the 
eastern shore, ajid ships, by taking advantage of them, and at the 
same time by keeping close over on that side, may succeed in entering 
night we anchored among 
British squadron, under the command of Eear-Admiral Sir George 
Fyre, who was the following morning saluted with thirteen guns— a 
compliment which would have been paid by the ships to the authori- 
^s o t e place, had it not been suspended in consequence of His 
mpena Highness requiring certain forms on the occasion, with 
comply Majesty's government did not think it right to 
ship being in want of caulking, and the rigging of a refit, pre- 
vious to encountering the boisterous latitude of Cape Horn, these 
repairs were immediately commenced, and the few stores expended 
on the passage were replaced. While these services were going 
forward, and observations were in progress for determining the geo- 
giaphical position of the port, and for other scientific purposes, ex- 
cursions were made to the various places of interest in which’ Rio 
Janeiro abounds :—Bota-Fogo, Braganza, the Falls of Tejuca, and the 
lofty Corcovado were successively visited, and afforded amusement to 
the naturalist, the traveller, and the artist. Few places are more 
worthy the description that has been given of them by various authors. 
