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of 235 0 52'Eaft. The Southern extreme before us, I named 
Cape Gregory Its latitude is 43 0 30% and its longitude v 
235 0 57' Eaft. It is a remarkable point; the land of it riling 
almoft diredly from the fea, to a tolerable height, while 
that on each lide of it is low. 
I continued Handing off till one in the afternoon. Then 
I tacked, and Hood in, hoping to have the wind off from 
the land in the night. But in this I was miftaken; for at 
five o’clock it began to veer to the Weft and South Weft; 
which obliged me, once more, to Hand out to fea. At this 
time, Cape Perpetua bore North Eaft by North ; and the 
fartheft land we could fee to the South of Cape Gregory, 
bore South by Eaft, perhaps ten or twelve leagues diftant. 
If I am right in this eftimation, its latitude will be 43 0 io', 
and its longitude 235 0 55' Eaft, which is nearly the fituation 
of Cape Blanco, difcovered or feen by Martin d’Aguilar, on 
the 19th of January, 1603. It is worth obferving, that, in 
the very latitude where we now were, geographers have 
been pleafed to place a large entrance or ftrait, the difco- 
very of which they take upon them to afcribe to the fame 
navigator ; whereas nothing more is mentioned in the ac¬ 
count of his voyage, than his having feen, in this fituation, 
a large river, which he would have entered, but was pre¬ 
vented by the currents t., 
The wind, as I have obferved, had veered to South Weft 
in the evening; but it was very unfettled, and blew in 
fqualls with fnow Ihowers. In one of thefe, at midnight, 
it fhifted at once to Weft North Weft, and foon increafed 
to a very hard gale, with heavy fqualls, attended with lleet 
* In our calendar, the 7th of March is diftinguifhed by the name of Perpetua M, and 
the 12th by that of Gregory B. 
f See the Hiftory of California, Eng, tranf. Vol. ii. p. 292, 
or 
1778. 
March. 
