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 anchored, at our return. The winds that prevailed, while I lay here, were from South, South Eat, to South, South Wet, always moderate weather, but the tide runs very trong, particularly the flood, which comes from the Eatward: o that we were never wind rode; the ebb returns the ame way, but not o trong; it is high water here, at the full and change of the moon, at half pat three, and its rie twelve or thirteen feet. I place this ile between Latitude 45′ South, and 1° 5′ South, and Longitude 89° 24′, and it bears from Cape St. Helena, Wet 5° North, by compas, one hundred and thirty-five leagues. It lays in a North Eat and South Wet direction; and its greatet extent is thirteen leagues in length, and ten miles in breadth.

The various kinds of ea-birds, which I had een on the Coat of Peru, we found here, but not in equal abundance. There were alo flamingos, ea-pies, plovers, and and-larks: The latter, were of the ame kind, as thoe of New Zealand. No quadruped was een on this iland, and the greatet part of its inhabitants appeared to be of the reptile kind, as land tortoies, lizards, and piders. We aw alo dead nakes, which probably perihed in the dry eaon. There were, beides, everal pecies of inects, as ants, moths, and common flies, in great numbers; as well as gras-hoppers, and crickets.