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 Spaniards in their dock yards ue for every purpoe of hip building, making mats, &c. A veel may lay o near the hore as to haul off its water; but the time of anchoring mut be conidered, as the flats run off a long way, and it is poible to be deceived in the ditance. The high water, by my calculation is at half pat three o'clock; at full and change the flood comes from the North and returns the ame way, flowing even hours and ebbing five, and the perpendicular rie of the tide two fathoms. I found everal betel nuts which appeared to have been wahed on the hore by the tide, but I did not ee any of the plants that bear them, growing on the hore, though everal of my people, after we had left the place, mentioned their having een many of them.

It would not be adviable for men of war and armed veels, acting upon the defenive or offenive, to anchor far in, as the wind throughout the day, blows freh from the Eatward, and right on hore, o that an enemy would have a very great advantage over hips in uch a ituation. There is good anchorage throughout the bay; at five or ix miles ditance, thirty-three and thirty-five fathom, with a mud bottom, and firm holding ground.

The mot commanding look out is the top of Quicara, we aw it over Quibo (which is low and flat) while we