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 On the eleventh at midnight, when I uppoed myelf off Cape Saint John, we ounded and truck ground at ninety fathoms, mall dark tones. In this depth of water I did not conider myelf as far to the Eatward of the Cape as I wihed, for which reaon, I hauled on a wind, and beat to windward, with the wind at North Eat and Eat North Eat, till even o'clock in the morning, when having no oundings at one hundred and fifty fathoms, I bore up for Cape Horn. On the twelfth at noon, the wind drew round to the South, South Eat, as the preceding night indicated, by the cold being o evere, that ome of the crew were frot bitten for everal hours, and the hip and rigging covered with now and ice. After this, the wind inclined to the Wet of South, which was oon ucceeded by moderate weather and mooth water; this was alo of hort duration, for it changed gradually round, until it got to the Eat, and at midnight on the thirteenth, it hifted uddenly in a quall of rain to the South, and brought me on a lee-hore.

At day-light we aw the Iles of Diego Ramieres, bearing North by Eat, three or four leagues; and I make them by obervations corrected, in Longitude 68° 58′ Wet; and in Latitude 56° 30′ South. They appeared to lay in an Eat and Wet direction. The Wetern Ile, which is the highet, is urrounded with mall ilets; and the circumference of the