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 Eat and Wet in the uppoed Latitude of thee iles. I am convinced that there are no other near this ituation than thoe I viited in my outward-bound paage; and where I was at this time determined to land a party for the purpoe of alting and drying eal-kins; intending then to proceed to the Eatward as far as Eater Ile, to earch for iles mentioned in the following extract of a letter in the poeion of Philip Stephens, Eq., and of whoe exitence I entertain not the leat doubt, as in their decription they differ much from Eater Ile, which I viited with Captain Cook, there not being a tree on it.

16th September, 1773.

"The Achilles left Calloa the eventh of April, and arrived at Cadiz the tenth, by which we learn that the frigate Le LievreLièvre [sic] (the Hare) had dicovered five ilands in the South ea, in about 27° of South Latitude; that one of them was coniderably large, and inhabited by Indians omewhat tractable, and governed by a chief. They have hatchets and other utenils, which they ay the Englih left there three months before the Lievre arrived there."

27th September, 1773.

"The tenth intant came into Cadiz, the merchant hip Achilles, which left Calloa off Lima, the eventh of