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 never known, and nature rets in perfect tranquility), would when here, naturally remark, that Providence had bleed the coats of Peru, by exempting that country from all convulions to be dreaded from the aerial elements, and doubly betowed them as a cure on this; unles they are to be conidered as a bleing, to impres the untutored Indian inhabitant, "by eeing God in clouds and hearing him in the winds", with a due idea of his Almighty power. It is alo to be hoped, that a native and reident in Peru, feels, ometimes, ideas of gratitude and thankfulnes towards his maker, for his goodnes. We ounded frequently, in the gulf, at twelve or thirteen leagues ditance from the hore, and found no bottom with one hundred and fifty fathoms of line: but when in Latitude 14° 57′, and at ten or eleven leagues ditant, we got bottom, at one hundred and five fathoms, which was muddy.

On the nineteenth of Augut, when two papps over point Angels, bore North Eat, and our Latitude was 16° 13′ North, we aw a large body of permaceti whales, and though the pirits of my people, were in ome degree depreed, by reflecting on the immene body of water over which we had ailed, the little ucces which we had hitherto experienced, and our being at lead a even months voyage from England, they were now elated, with all the eagernes of anguine expectation. The boats accordingly gave chae, and oon came up