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 If uch an enterprie has not commenced, the period, however, cannot be ditant, when a commercial earch after furs, eals, and whales, will lead adventurers to travere the Coats of Terra del Fuego and Patagonia, for them. The whales and eals are grown hy, and become carce in other parts where they have been hitherto taken, o that new haunts mut be reorted to, in order to keep up the pirit of our fiheries; and thoe coats will probably employ fifty or ixty ail of merchant hips, as they abound not only with black whales and eals, but the ea elephant and the ea lion.

The Southernmot ettlement of the Spaniards, known on the Wetern ide, is Brewers, or Englih Harbour, in Latitude 44° 20′ South. To the South of it, is a great archipelago, and many deep inlets, which perhaps, are unknown to the Spaniards.

As from the circumtances already mentioned, I had given up all earch after Anna Pink Bay, I was, from the ame caue, induced to relinquih my deign of looking into Brewers Harbour, and did not make land again, till we were in the Latitude 38° 39′, when we aw the Ile Mocha.

In 40° South, we aw permaceti whales, but did not take any till the firt of May, when we made the Ile, the ea being