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 the only return of gratitude as yet in my power, for the many acts of kindnes and civility I received from him.

From a variety of obervations of Sun, Moon, and Stars, I determine the Ile of Socoro to be in Latitude 18° 48′ North, Longitude 110° 10′ Wet, and bearing from Cape Corientes Wet, 22° South, ditant ninety leagues. It lays in a Wet North Wet, and Eat South Eat direction; its greatet extent is eight leagues, and it is about three leagues in breadth. It may be aid to conit of one mountain, which may be een at the ditance of twenty leagues, and falls in gradual decent at all points on the South ide. It is in a great meaure covered with bruh-wood, intermixed with the low prickly pear-trees, and occaionally haded with other trees of a larger growth. Some few pots of the oil are black and barren, as if fire had lately iued near it; and the top of the high land at a ditance, has the appearance of there having been formerly a volcano: the urface is of a whitih colour, like that of the pumice tone, which was found on the hore. But though this may denote the exitence of former eruption, I did not perceive either fire or moke to iue from any part of the iland. It mut, however, be acknowledged, that Socoro is an excellent place of reort for a veel with a corbutic crew, or to refit if engaged in a cruie againt the Spaniards off the Coat of Mexico, or employed in the whaling ervice.