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 it in Latitude 1° 24′ South, and Longitude 89° 47′ Wet. It bears, from the Eat point of the ile, before which we had anchored, South, ditance five leagues, and lays in the direction of North, North Wet, and South, South Eat, and may be fourteen miles in extent. The ide we aw, reembles the Eat point of the large ile, but is enlivened with an higher degree of verdure: we alo aw a greater number of eals, off this, than off the other iland. I do not heitate to conider it, as the Southernmot and Eaternmot of the Galapagoe iles. In the accounts of Wood, Rogers and others, the Spaniards are aid to be acquainted with an iland in the Latitude of 1° 16′ South, which has plenty of water on it. This may be true during a rainy eaon, or for ome time after it; but I am not in the habit of giving an implicit faith to Spanih accounts.

As I could not trace thee iles, by any accounts or maps in my poeion. I named one Chatham Ile, and the other Hood's Iland, after the Lords Chatham and Hood.