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1776. as that might have heightened the danger, without any 
poffibility of leffening it. I make the North end of the 
ifland of Bonavifta to lie in the latitude of 16 0 17' North, 
and in the longitude of 22 0 59' Weft. 
-Sunday u. As foon as we were clear of the rocks, we fleered South 
South Weft, till day-break next morning, and then hauled 
to the Weft ward, to go between Bonavifta and the ille of 
Mayo, intending to look into Port Praya for the Difcovery, 
as I had told Captain Clerke that I fhould touch there, and 
•did not know how foon he might fail after me. At one in 
the afternoon, we faw the rocks that lie on the South Weft 
fide of Bonavifta, bearing South Eaft, diftant three or four 
leagues. 
Monday iz. Next moming, at fix o’clock, tlie ifle of Mayo bore South 
South Eaft, diftant about five leagues. In this fituation we 
founded, and found ground at fixty fathoms. At the fame 
time the variation, by the mean of feveral azimuths taken 
with three different compaffes, was 9 0 32T Weft. At eleven 
u’clock, one extreme of Mayo bore Eaft by North, and 
the other South Eaft by South. In this polition, two 
roundifh hills appeared near its North Eaft part; farther 
on, a large and higher hill; and, at about two-thirds of 
its length, a fingle one that is peaked. At the diftance we 
now faw this illand, which was three or four miles, there 
was not the leaf! appearance of vegetation, nor any re¬ 
lief to the eye from that lifelefs brown which prevails in 
countries under the Torrid Zone that are unwooded. 
Here I cannot help remarking that Mr. Nichelfon, in his 
Preface to Sundry Remarks and Obfervations made in a Voy¬ 
age to the Eaji Indies *, tells us, that u with eight degrees 
* On board his Majefty’s fhip Elizabeth, from 1758 to 1764 ; by William Nichel¬ 
fon, Matter of the faid fhip. London, 1773. 
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