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 during the night, with the deign of going on hore in the morning. This ile is of a moderate height, preents a pleaant apect, and is urrounded with mall ilets, the two larget of which I named after the admirals Sir Alan Gardner and Caldwell. There are everal andy beaches on it, and a great number of eals were een off it. At day-light the current had et us o coniderably to the Southward and Wetward, as to have lot ight of the iland, though we plyed to Windward all the forenoon we gained but little. We got ight, however, of Albemarle Ile, and two maller ones which lie between it and Charles Ile. I take them to be the Croman and Brattles Iles of the Buccaneers. At noon on the twentieth, our Latitude was 1° 23′ South; the extremes of Charles Ile bearing from Eat 14° North, to Eat 24° North; and Albemarle ile from North 45° Wet, to North 10° Wet; with a mall flat ile between them. We aw everal permaceti whales, and gave chae with boats and hip but could not come up with them. We beat off here for forty hours, and lot ground coniderably from the current running o trong to the Wetward. At noon on the twenty-firt, our Latitude was 1° 19′ South, Albemarle Ile bearing from North 20° Eat, to North 31° Wet; and Perry Ithmus, North 5° Wet. By four o'clock in the afternoon, we got within two miles of the South