Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2- Appendix): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

QG8 API'KXDIX. After rounding Inner Point you may anchor where convenient, in quiet still water, with from four to seven fathoms, over a muddy bot- tom. The landing jDlace is at the mole about the centre of the town. N. 41°. W., nine leagues and a half from the town of Payta, is Point Paeina, a bluff, about eighty feet high, with a reef to the distance of half a mile on its west side ; between this point and Payta the coast is low and sandy, with table land of a moderate height, a short distance from the beach ; and the mountain of Ama- tape five leagues in the interior. After rounding Point Parina (which is the western extreme of South America), the coast trends abruptly to the northward, and becomes higher and more chiij^ until you reach Point Talara. This is a double point, the southern part of which is cliffy ; about eighty feet high, with a smaU black rock lying off it ; the northern part is much lower, and has few breakers near. On the north side of this point is a shallow bay, in the depth of which the high cliffy coast again commences, and runs in a line towards Cape Blanco. Cape Blanco is high and bold (apparently the corner of a long range of table-land), sloping gradually toward the sea ; near the extreme of the cape there aie two shaq> topped hillocks.; and midway between them and the commencement of the table land, is another rise with a sharp top. There are some rocks that shew themselves about a quarter of a mile off^, but no danger exists without that dis- tance. From Cape Blanco the general trend of the coast is more easterly, in nearly a direct hne to Point Malpelo, which is twenty- one leagues distant. N. 34° E., seven leagues and a half from the former is Point Sal, a brown cliff", one hundred and twenty feet high ; along the coast is a sandy beach, with high cliff as far as the valley of Mancora, where it is low with brush wood near the sea ; the hills being- at a dis- tance inland. Northward of Point Sal the coast is cliffy, to about midway between It and Point Picos ; it then becomes lower, and similar to Mancora. Point Picos is a sloping bluff, with a sandy beach outside it, and another point, exactly similar, a little to the northward : at the back of it is a cluster of hills with sharp peaks, hence arises, probably, the name given by the Spaniards to this point. From Point Picos the coast is a sandy beach, with a mixture of hill and cliff of a