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 Anchors lot there by the Portugueze Ships; and farther out (in 14 Fathom) corally and Rocky. July is the wort and Winter Seaon of this Coat, the Trade Winds being then very trong and dead, bringing in a prodigious and unafe Swell into the Road, intermixed every Day with Squalls, Rain, and a hazey Horizon, but at other times erener Skies and Sunhine.

In thee Southern Latitudes is a Contellation, which from ome Reemblance it bears to a Jerualem Cros, has the Name of Croiers, the brightet of this Hemiphere, and are oberved by, as the North Star is in Northern Latitudes; but what I mention this for, is, to introduce the admirable Phænomenon in thee Seas of the Megellanick Clouds, whoe Riings and Sittings are o regular, that I have been aured, the ame Nocturnal Obervations are made by them as by the Stars; They are two Clouds, mall and whitih, no larger in Appearance than a Man’s Hat, and are een here in July in the Latitude of 8° S. about four of the Clock in the Morning; if their Appearance hould be aid to be the Reflection of Light, from ome Stellary Bodies above them, yet the Difficulty is not eaily anwered, how thee, beyond others, become o durable and regular in their Motions.

From thee caual Obervations on the Country, the Towns, Coat, and Seas of Brail, it would be an Omiion to leave the Subject, without ome Eay on an interloping Slave Trade here, which none of our Countrymen are adventrousadventurous [sic] enough to purue, though it very probably, under a prudent Manager, would be attended with Safety and very great Profit; and I admire the more it is not truck at, becaue Ships from the Southern Coat of Africa, don’t lengthen the Voyage to the Wet-Indies a great deal, by taking a Part of Brail in their Way. The