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VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS.
whole may be nine or ten miles. With the aſſiſtance of teleſcopes, it appeared to be entirely barren, though it may be an aſylum for ſeals; there being many about us at this time, as well as white crows. Theſe birds reſemble in ſize and figure, the dun crow, which I have frequently ſeen in Hampſhire, in the winter ſeaſon, and is probably a bird of paſſage. We daily ſaw theſe crows, from the Latitude of the Falkland Iſlands, until we had doubled Cape Horn. They all appeared to come from the Eaſtward and Southward; perhaps from Sandwich land, and to be bound to the main land of America. Several of them were caught, but could not be preſerved alive. It may be remarked that I never ſaw any of theſe birds at Cape Horn in my former voyages.
