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 Latitude, tood motly at 29-9, and the thermometer at 60, riing gradually till in the Latitude of 1° 30′ South, till it reached 72; but in the evening, it was generally below ummer heat in England. Along the whole of this coat, the dews were very heavy during the night: and in proportion as they were heavier, the ucceeding day was more or les clear. At the full and change of the moon we perceived no dew, which appeared to be upplied by a heavy drizzling rain and mity weather. The morning, evening, and night, were always cloudy, but the middle of the day was generally clear, o that I eldom enjoyed a ditinct view of the Cordileras des Andes. The mitines of the early part of the day, proceeded from the un riing behind the Andes, and the clearnes of the noon was occaioned by the un, which had then over-topped the mountains; but I am yet to learn the caue of the hazines of the evening.

The currents on this coat are very irregular. I tried them everal times, and found that they et as often one way as the other, and generally from half a mile to two miles an hour. The et, may at all times be dicovered by oberving the direction of large beds of mall blubber, with which this coat abounds, and from whence the water