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a parallel with the water's edge. We did not land on either of them. In this expedition we ſaw great numbers of penguins, and three or four hundred ſeals. There were alſo ſmall birds, with a red breaſt, ſuch as I have ſeen at the New Hebrides; and others reſembling the Java ſparrow, in ſhape and ſize, but of a black plumage; the male was the darkeſt, and had a very delightful note. At every place where we landed on the Weſtern ſide, we might have walked for miles, through long graſs and beneath groves of trees. It only wanted a ſtream to compoſe a very charming landſcape. This iſle appears to have been a favourite reſort of the Buccaneers, as we not only found ſeats, which had been made by them of earth and ſtone, but a conſiderable number of broken jars ſcattered about, and ſome entirely whole, in which the Peruvian wine and liquors of that country are preſerved. We alſo found ſome old daggers, nails and other implements. This place is, in every reſpect, calculated for refreſhment or relief for crews after a long and tedious voyage, as it abounds with wood, and good anchorage, for any number of ſhips, and ſheltered from all winds by Albemarle Iſle. The watering-place of the Buccaneers was entirely dried up, and there was only found a ſmall rivulet between two hills running into the ſea; the Northernmoſt of the hill forms the South point of Freſh-
