it in Latitude 1° 24′ South, and Longitude 89° 47′ Weſt. It bears, from the Eaſt point of the iſle, before which we had anchored, South, diſtance five leagues, and lays in the direction of North, North Weſt, and South, South Eaſt, and may be fourteen miles in extent. The ſide we ſaw, reſembles the Eaſt point of the large iſle, but is enlivened with an higher degree of verdure: we alſo ſaw a greater number of ſeals, off this, than off the other iſland. I do not heſitate to conſider it, as the Southernmoſt and Eaſternmoſt of the Galapagoe iſles. In the accounts of Wood, Rogers and others, the Spaniards are ſaid to be acquainted with an iſland in the Latitude of 1° 16′ South, which has plenty of water on it. This may be true during a rainy ſeaſon, or for ſome time after it; but I am not in the habit of giving an implicit faith to Spaniſh accounts.
As I could not trace theſe iſles, by any accounts or maps in my poſſeſſion. I named one Chatham Iſle, and the other Hood's Iſland, after the Lords Chatham and Hood.
