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 On the ninth of September, in Latitude 17° 16′, and. Longitude 102° 32′, we met with as irregular a well as I ever aw, off Cape Horn, accompanied with very changeable weather, faint lightning round the compas, frequent howers of rain, and light variable winds, blowing North Wet by Wet, round the compas, to Eat South Eat, and continually hifting till the 17th of September, at midnight; when, in a heavy quall of wind from the North Wet by Wet, there fell as great a torrent of rain, as I had een, with tremendous thunder and lightning, which I concluded was the forerunner of the equinoctial gale: on the 17th at noon, our Latitude was 18° 27′ North, Longitude, 109° 0′ Wet; thermometer 30°, barometer 29 6 4; at this time blowing a trong breeze, and unettled weather, which, by the eighteenth, at noon, had increaed to a perfect torm, from the Wet North Wet, with a very heavy ea that we could hew little or no ail, till eight o'clock the ame evening; when the weather moderated, thunder, lightning, and rain ceaed, and the wind ettled in the Wetern quarter.

At daybreak, on the twentieth, we aw the Iland of Socoro: a number of thoe birds that generally follow