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 health and pirits, we made ail, if it became moderate, only for half an hour; and, at length, fairly beat round the land of Terra del Fuego. No ooner had we attained this object, than we had fine weather, with a Southerly wind; which promied favourably, to my preent intention of examining Wager Iland, on the Wet coat of Patagonia, which we aw on the twenty-eighth, at midnight.

Wager Ile is high and rugged, and may be een at the ditance of fourteen or fifteen leagues. It is about five or ix leagues in length, and lays, by compas, nearly in a North and South direction, with many ilets off both North and South ends. I place the body of it in Latitude 46° 30′, and Longitude 76° Wet. On the wetern ide, where nothing grows but a mall quantity of green mos, it wears a very barren appearance, and the ditant hills, bearing Eat 25° North, I believe, were mountains on the main land, covered with now. Capt. Cheap, who commanded the Wager, one of Lord Anon's quadron, has given a full decription of this iland, where he was unfortunately cat away. My deign in making it, was to obtain ome knowledge of Anna Pink Bay and Harbour, but the coat was o forbidding, and the weather of uch a dark, hazy, and wintry apect, as to dicourage me from perevering in it. Beides, having doubled Cape Horn at the precie time of the year when Lord Anon went round it, and being at Wager Ile within a fortnight of the time, when