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 ight of it, was about half an hour. In this gale, I lot the greatet part of my live tock, together with all the vegetables that hung at the tern of the hip.

On the eighth day of April, in Latitude 50°, we truck oundings off the North Wet end of Falkland's Ilands. The whole way I aw plenty of black whales; and two days before triking oundings, we perceived a hoal of permaceti whales, apparently bound round Cape Horn; but our boats being all houed and well ecured for doubling the Cape, we did not purue them. In this coure I ran directly over the ituations in which the Ile of Grand is placed in all the charts, without dicovering any appearance of land. On the ninth, in the afternoon, we truck oundings in ixty-five fathoms off the Wet end of Falkland's Ilands; but the violence of the wind and the thick weather prevented me from making an accurate obervation. The hallownes of the bottom induced me to believe that I was not o far to the Wet as the watch gave me. When by my calculation I was to the South of Falkland's Iles, I tood away for Cape Saint John, Staten Land. The winds were variable North Wet, South, South Eat, Eat, and North Eat. The greatet depth at which I found bottom was ninety fathoms; and then no bottom at one hundred and fifty fathoms.