. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. n the clifts. FromLowbeachy the pitch of the Cape SW there lieth a beachy point reachingSSWofthe about a league into the sea : on this beach grow small bushes,Cape, the Eastern point of the beach bears SSW per compass fromCape Virgin Mary. Pecket and JVood]. I find the variationhere to be 17° Easterly. [The * It is concerning this .v.^^ Seixas y Lovera has citedTemplemant. Seixassays, the Rio de Gallegos is very deep, ,.;,], ^ large eutrance : the land on the Northern side is high,
. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. n the clifts. FromLowbeachy the pitch of the Cape SW there lieth a beachy point reachingSSWofthe about a league into the sea : on this beach grow small bushes,Cape, the Eastern point of the beach bears SSW per compass fromCape Virgin Mary. Pecket and JVood]. I find the variationhere to be 17° Easterly. [The * It is concerning this .v.^^ Seixas y Lovera has citedTemplemant. Seixassays, the Rio de Gallegos is very deep, ,.;,], ^ large eutrance : the land on the Northern side is high, and near that shore are reets \j[ iv-^tg ^hich we saw. To which may be added what is said by John Templemant, an i^--aii^hman who went to the South at the same time with Carlos Enriquez Clerk, in the Soutnti^ * Directory written by him and printed in England in the year 1673, that on the * said North side of the said River there are some dunp-erous reefs of which the sood mariner should keep well clear; but near the Southern shore the channel is fair and deep. Descr. Geog. de la Reg. Mag. foi. 59,2^. CHAP ] ■% 1670. October. EastEntrance of theStrait ofMagal- hanes. 24tll. FirstNaiTow. TO PATAGONIA AND CHILI. 349 [The 23d, sailing along towards Cape Orange, we had 20 and55 fathoras depth in the fair way. About 4 leagues SW ofPoint Possession we haled in WbN, to get near the North shore,and we fell in with shoal water ; at once we had but 5 fathoms,and then Cape Orange bore SSW of us distant two leagues. Webore oft to the SE again and had 19 fathoms, and then westeered away for the First Narrow. Pecket]. Here is anchoring all about in the fair way from Cape VirginMary till you come into the Narrow. I did not find much tideany where except in the Narrow: the flood sets into theStreights: it is six hours flood and two hours ebb ; it riseth andfalls near four fathoms perpendicular; and is high water hereon the change day of the moon at 11 oclock as well as I couldperceive. Many
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