When we were at our greateſt Southern Latitude, the thermometer ſtood at 42-5, and the barometer was never lower than 28-8-0. In the laſt gale, the thermometer ſtood at 38-5, and barometer 28-7-6, which was the loweſt point to which it ſunk during the voyage.
Between the Latitude 53° and 40° South, and Longitude 59° and 38° Weſt, we ſaw large bodies of ſea-weed, and great numbers of birds: and on the Auguſt 11.eleventh of Auguſt, we croſſed near the ſuppoſed ſituation of the Iſle Grande. At this time my veſſel was almoſt a wreck, very ſhort of proviſions, and what remained in a very bad ſtate, to which may be added an hurricane of wind and the winter ſeaſon: circumſtances that, I truſt, will be a ſufficient excuſe for my not renewing my ſearch of it as I had intended.
The wind remained in the South Weſt quarter, during five days, at which period our Latitude was 35° 45′, and Longitude 31° 22′ Weſt, when we had light and variable winds. On 18.the eighteenth of Auguſt, at noon, the Latitude being 33° 41′, the wind ſettled in the North Eaſt quarter, and blew a freſh breeze for four days, but on the ſucceeding four, it varied round the compaſs, with frequent rain. By