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 When we were at our greatet Southern Latitude, the thermometer tood at 42-5, and the barometer was never lower than 28-8-0. In the lat gale, the thermometer tood at 38-5, and barometer 28-7-6, which was the lowet point to which it unk during the voyage.

Between the Latitude 53° and 40° South, and Longitude 59° and 38° Wet, we aw large bodies of ea-weed, and great numbers of birds: and on the eleventh of Augut, we croed near the uppoed ituation of the Ile Grande. At this time my veel was almot a wreck, very hort of proviions, and what remained in a very bad tate, to which may be added an hurricane of wind and the winter eaon: circumtances that, I trut, will be a ufficient excue for my not renewing my earch of it as I had intended.

The wind remained in the South Wet quarter, during five days, at which period our Latitude was 35° 45′, and Longitude 31° 22′ Wet, when we had light and variable winds. On the eighteenth of Augut, at noon, the Latitude being 33° 41′, the wind ettled in the North Eat quarter, and blew a freh breeze for four days, but on the ucceeding four, it varied round the compas, with frequent rain. By