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 time of war, for veels of mall force, to lay at, in order to watch an enemy; the land, being of ufficient height, to afford ecurity and concealment.

I continued my route along the coat to the Northward, running under an eay ail, or tanding off and on in the day, and laying to at night. I never ditanced the land, more than fourteen or fifteen leagues, and was ometimes as near it, as two or three leagues. I cruized everal days off Lima, at a mall ditance from the Ile Saint Lawrence, which forms the road of Callo. I kept near this ituation, in hopes of meeting ome veel, which might afford me information, whether any Englih fihermen were in the road, and without any apprehenion, of being known by the Spaniards, as the uperior ailing of my hip, always left it to my own option, to peak with whom I pleaed.

On the ixth of June, at un-et, I aw the dangerous rocks and hoals of Ormigas, appearing like a ail, and laying nearly Eat and Wet of Ile Saint Lawrence. At noon our Latitude oberved was 11° 48′, the Ile Saint Lawrence Eat, 80° North, and the rocks of Ormigas, North 28° Wet, at the ditance of even or eight miles. Thee rocks are very dangerous; the loftiet part being little higher than the hull of a mall hip; and the ea breaks, for everal leagues, around, and off, them. They are quite barren, and I oberved with my glas, two croes erected on them, which in a hort time diap-