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R. Dalrymple conjectures, that, to the Wet of the Iles Saint Felix and Saint Ambroe, there are others, of the ame name, which were called Saint Felix and Ambroe Rocks. To acertain the truth of this opinion, I ran as far to the Wetward, as 84°, when eeing neither land, birds or eals, to jutify a belief that any uch iles exited near this ituation, I hauled on a wind for the coat of Peru, intending to make it, in Latitude 17° South; but, the wind hanging to the Eatward, I did not get on the fihing ground, until I was in the Latitude of 15° 30′.

There was now o large an extent of coat, in every part of which, I might meet with thoe Britih hips, employed in