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 pleaant weather, accompanied with occaional howers. In Latitude 33° South, the wind Southerd on us and the next day veered to the Wet, and continued motly between the Wet and North till we got into 47° South. It would ometimes blow, for a few hours, between the Wet and South Wet, but never continued. In the Latitudes of 48° and 49°, the winds were light for forty-eight hours in the South Eat quarter, with a trong Southerly current.

On the twenty-ixth of July, in Latitude 48° South, the coat of Chili preented to us a range of high mountains covered with now. We had now frequent howers of rain, hail and now, and, on the firt of Augut, doubled Cape Horn at the ditance of fifteen Leagues. During the whole of the paage, the weather was not, by many degrees, o bad as we had apprehended, and was much better than that we had experienced when we came from Europe.

When we had rounded the Cape, and had advanced to the North, the weather improved every hour. In the Latitude 49°, the wind blew for twenty-four hours in the South Eat quarter, with delightful weather. Our pirits, as may be uppoed, were greatly cheered by uch a