the only return of gratitude as yet in my power, for the many acts of kindneſs and civility I received from him.
From a variety of obſervations of Sun, Moon, and Stars, I determine the Iſle of Socoro to be in Latitude 18° 48′ North, Longitude 110° 10′ Weſt, and bearing from Cape Corientes Weſt, 22° South, diſtant ninety leagues. It lays in a Weſt North Weſt, and Eaſt South Eaſt direction; its greateſt extent is eight leagues, and it is about three leagues in breadth. It may be ſaid to conſiſt of one mountain, which may be ſeen at the diſtance of twenty leagues, and falls in gradual deſcent at all points on the South ſide. It is in a great meaſure covered with bruſh-wood, intermixed with the low prickly pear-trees, and occaſionally ſhaded with other trees of a larger growth. Some few ſpots of the ſoil are black and barren, as if fire had lately iſſued near it; and the top of the high land at a diſtance, has the appearance of there having been formerly a volcano: the ſurface is of a whitiſh colour, like that of the pumice ſtone, which was found on the ſhore. But though this may denote the exiſtence of former eruption, I did not perceive either fire or ſmoke to iſſue from any part of the iſland. It muſt, however, be acknowledged, that Socoro is an excellent place of reſort for a veſſel with a ſcorbutic crew, or to refit if engaged in a cruiſe againſt the Spaniards off the Coaſt of Mexico, or employed in the whaling ſervice.
