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 whole may be nine or ten miles. With the aitance of telecopes, it appeared to be entirely barren, though it may be an aylum for eals; there being many about us at this time, as well as white crows. Thee birds reemble in ize and figure, the dun crow, which I have frequently een in Hamphire, in the winter eaon, and is probably a bird of paage. We daily aw thee crows, from the Latitude of the Falkland Ilands, until we had doubled Cape Horn. They all appeared to come from the Eatward and Southward; perhaps from Sandwich land, and to be bound to the main land of America. Several of them were caught, but could not be preerved alive. It may be remarked that I never aw any of thee birds at Cape Horn in my former voyages.