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 from the water-ide, and the little verdure that was viible was on the tops of the hills, which were crowned with low, haggy buhes, that gradually diminihed in quantity as they hung down the declivities; and were ometimes divided by veins of an hard, black, hining earth, which, at a mall ditance, had the appearance of treamlets of water. The torm petrels accompanied us in great numbers: but the wind coming right out with a current or tide, that was o rapid, as to be attended with ome degree of danger, we gave up our deign of reaching the head of the bay, particularly as night was approaching, and darknes would have overtaken us. When I returned on board, I found the hip laying between two winds, and becalmed within half a mile of the hore, where no bottom could be obtained with one hundred and fifty fathom of line. In this ituation we were near an hour, with flaws of wind all round the compas, and heavy howers. At lat, we caught a Southerly wind and made ail to the Wetward, and when clear of the hore, hove to for the night. The weather was dark and gloomy, with heavy dews and a trong outherly current; o that at day-light we were et nearly as far to the South as we were on the preceding noon. At noon our Latitude was 0° 35′ 6″ South: the extremities of land bearing from North 12° Eat, to Eat 37° South.