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N leaving Rio Janeiro, I tood away to the Southward and Eatward to earch for the Iland Grand, which is aid to lay in the Latitude of 45° South, and was the firt object recommended to me by the Board of Admiralty. On the eventeenth of March, at noon, Latitude by obervation 39° 33′ South; Longitude by the mean of chronometers 34° 21′ Wet; and by account, 34° 25′; variation, 9° Eat. The ea appeared of a pale green, and we aw many birds, ome of which were aid by everal of my people, to be of thoe kinds which are uppoed to indicate the vicinity of land; uch as and-larks, and a large pecies of curlew; but neither of the latter kinds of birds were een by me. From noon of the eventeenth, until ix in the evening, the wind blew from the South, South Eat, and we tood away to the Southward and Wetward: it then became