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 ituations, when at a mall ditance, like hips under ail. That part of the gulf, which lies between the Tres Marias and the main, forms a deep bay of fifteen or twenty leagues, and affords a good and afe anchorage, having regular oundings from the hore, and at the ditance of four or five miles, five fathom; but whether the oundings extend to the Tres Marias, I have had no opportunity to inform myelf: but when the Iabellas bore North, half Eat, ditant five miles, I had good anchorage in twenty fathom water, muddy bottom.

The native Indians have a large etablihment in this bay, known, in mot of the charts, by the name of Mazatlan, but pronounced by the Creole Spaniards, Maukelta town. It is remarkable for the great quantity of large fih, not unlike almon in ize and hape, which, during the ummer eaon, are taken in the mouth of a mall river near it: but previous to the capture of the veels under my command, the inhabitants were unacquainted with a proper method of alting them. In this ueful cience they were intructed by ome of my crew, who had been employed in the Newfoundland fiheries.