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 Santo Berto, when our Latitude by obervation was 19° 15′, and Longitude corrected, 109° 54′. At this point, the iland had a barren appearance, with little or no vegetation. It lay in a North Eat, and South Wet direction, is about ix miles in length, and two or three in breadth, with a few rocks jut appearing above water off different parts of it. Its urface is uneven, and its appearance romantic; and, at the ditance of nine or ten miles, has the reemblance of two eparate iles. We aw ome eals there, and a great number of men-of-war hawks on the bluff, at the South end. On the Wet ide, is a mall bay, but, as it diappointed my expectations, I did not land, or try for oundings in it. As the hurricane month and unettled weather were not as yet over, and I knew of no ecure anchoring place at Socoro, where I could with afety overhaul my rigging, and break up the hold, which we tood in great need of, prepondering at the ame time in my mind, that the Ile St. Thomas's did actually exit, and was not far ditant: I tretched away to the Wetward in earch of it, till we made 7° weting, and reached the Longitude 118° Wet, in Latitude 20° 30′. I adminitered to the crew who were afflicted with the curvy, twenty drops of elixir of vitriol, and half a pint of wine, three times a day, with ome preerved fruits, freh bread, and pickles, from my own