anchored, at our return. The winds that prevailed, while I lay here, were from South, South Eaſt, to South, South Weſt, always moderate weather, but the tide runs very ſtrong, particularly the flood, which comes from the Eaſtward: ſo that we were never wind rode; the ebb returns the ſame way, but not ſo ſtrong; it is high water here, at the full and change of the moon, at half paſt three, and its riſe twelve or thirteen feet. I place this iſle between Latitude 45′ South, and 1° 5′ South, and Longitude 89° 24′, and it bears from Cape St. Helena, Weſt 5° North, by compaſs, one hundred and thirty-five leagues. It lays in a North Eaſt and South Weſt direction; and its greateſt extent is thirteen leagues in length, and ten miles in breadth.
The various kinds of ſea-birds, which I had ſeen on the Coaſt of Peru, we found here, but not in equal abundance. There were alſo flamingos, ſea-pies, plovers, and ſand-larks: The latter, were of the ſame kind, as thoſe of New Zealand. No quadruped was ſeen on this iſland, and the greateſt part of its inhabitants appeared to be of the reptile kind, as land tortoiſes, lizards, and ſpiders. We ſaw alſo dead ſnakes, which probably periſhed in the dry ſeaſon. There were, beſides, ſeveral ſpecies of inſects, as ants, moths, and common flies, in great numbers; as well as graſs-hoppers, and crickets.
