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 On the ixteenth, at noon, off Cape Paado, the land behind inviible from the hazy weather, we were, by obervation, in fifty-even miles South. On the ame day, we gave chae to, and came up with, a Spanih now, from Acapulco to Lima, from whom we procured ome freh beef, and two cocks; for which we returned a few bottles of wine and porter, with ome weet-meats, the mater being ick.

On the eighteenth, the weather became clouded and threatening, and I was every hour expecting to fall in with the heavy rains, which happen on the coat of Mexico, from November to July. The air alo became hot and ultry, and we had frequent howers of rain. The thermometer now roe to 80°, and we may be aid to have felt, at every pore, that we had left the mot delightful climate in the world, to encounter the parching airs of the torrid zone. The eals and birds, which are inhabitants of the frigid zone, but which I have een as far South, as 70°, appearing to be delighted on the coat of Peru, as if intinct had forbidden them to venture no farther, now left us.

At this time it became neceary to determine, what route we hould take, whether we hould return to the Southward, or proceed to the Northward; but, as the