An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to the Streights of MageUan. t r, the Iíl:mds borc North of me, diíbnt 3 Lcagucs otf; I foundcd, but could not gct ground at 70 fJthoms : I faw Cape Dejiade; it clcarcd up, for thc Fog was much on thc Hi:ls; thc Ca"e was E, S. E. of me, di{bnt n~ar cight Lcagucs; the tops of the raggcd Hills, or rocky Spirc:s, wcrc cloudcd with the flying Fog, lo as I could not fce the Cape fooncr; for in clc.:~1r \ VCJ.th: :r, thc Land ac Cape-Pillar and Cape Defiade may be icen 15 or 16 Lelgucs, it is Í<;> high and raggcd. Hkc:1·cd by Cap_e-P1llar E. and by S. tite \Vind at W. S. Tfr. a frcJh Gllc; a grc.:at humming Sea un hc.:rc, which camc out of th-:! S. .TV. I faw tbc Sea brc~k upon broken Grouud, which li::th ¡e k:1íl fom· Lc:agucs from thc Point of Cape Defiade \Vcfi into thc Sea, and m.my Rocks that werc fonk, and Prints of Rocks above \Vatcr, hich the Sea brcakcth ccrribty: Thcfe lie off Cape Defiade about two Lc~m:s, and a Lc~1guc> nd fome not half a Mile ott, very d~ngerous. As I camc nc~ucr che Strcights-ruouch, I rai[cd he Land on thc North-iide by Cape Viélory, .md ebrokcn lfbnds wichin the Strcights, which I llcd Wéftminfler ({le, and thc Lodgert lfle; chcy ake r.1ggcd in Hillocks at thc firH: fight. Ar inc or· che Clock Cape-Pilla,· bore Somh of me, 'Íng difbnc about a Mile and an half from c. No Tidc or Currenr, as I could pct·ccivc, fct 'rhcr in or out of che Strei~hrs, 10 as to prcju.. ic.:: Naviaation. The ,\ ffi:rcncc of Longirude, Eafi is 1 d. ,9 m; tentbs; thc L~ütudc by my Accouut now, is but J 2. sz.,