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GULl? OF SAXTA SIAETA. 
■ 1 of one of those lunar halos 
^-hlh of 0 - great black cloud, from 
Led it, ■?“® soon resumed its 
bobdeflE-t’ series of lalling-stars and 
bolides, ^hich mored in one direction, and contrary to that 
01 tlie 11 lud ol the loivcr strata. 
the .a comparison of the reckoning with 
ri • ®‘r longitude, indicated the force of a cur- 
fourhouS ^ twenty-tivo miles in tiventr- 
oui liouis. 1 found the temperature of the sea somewlu'it 
dnmmshed; in latitude 12 “/ 35 ', it was only^sTLaL 
Lectinlp wl'-’T *’’0 J'l^ole day the firmament e.xhibitcd a 
and wbiVlT T® ' ^^ought remarkable even by the sailors, 
rith T7001 on.*^ observed on a previous occasion (June 
those littlif' ^a® a total absence of clouds, even of 
with 1 Se called ‘dry;’ yet the sun coloured, 
TownLf^ -T/ ’'“’«on of the sea. 
owaids night, the sea was covered with great bluish 
heiSt’ Tee .‘I'sappeared, we saw, at an immense 
ght, fleecy clouds in regular spaces, and ramred in 
onTCrgent bands. Their direction was from NN W to 
to the’diVe f"®"® r consequently contrary 
to the d rection of the magnetic meridian. 
*i'® March, we entered the gulf which is 
the S hv ?®f ®®^* ^'’® and on 
and that Magdalena 
and that of the Eio San Juan de iSlicaragna are on 
PacifiToV’"™ ®’’ "®f^y P™ty o? tte 
the S?nl^h!f ’ V® of tlie neighbouring lands, 
San T. L^® AT®®° *’'® Solf of Papagayo and the port of 
tains **10 vicinity of the snowy mouii- 
numeroiis fn n Marta, and many otLr circumstances too 
inthis wdf Tl“ '®f°’ combine to create a peculiar climate 
immvn fn f “ffospltcrc is agitated bv violent gales, 
ten t e 1^1^ ’® hrizolesde Santa Marta. 
ennfl- f* 1 r Currents bear to KE., and the 
conflict between the slight breezes (from E. and N.E.) 
PassaTerisS 0 *'*"'' (North-wejt 
