December The vertical inclination o f die magnetic needle,
---- ,---- i Marked end, North Face Eaft, -- -
Ditto ditto Weft, -
' Ditto South Face Eaft, . ^
Ditto Ditto Weft,
Mean inclination o f the marine dipping needle,
59° 23'
59 38
58 32
59 4 5
59 1 3
The tides were found to run in general about two knots, (though
fuller at fpring tides) fix hours each way. High water nine hours after
the moon paffes the meridian.
The fituations o f the different parts of the coaft, from Monterrey,
are corrected, and laid down, from the refult of the above obfervations.
The rates and errors o f the chronometers having been afcertained by obfervations
made with the artificial horizon at St. Diego.
CH A P T E R
Proceed to thefouthward— Defcription o f the coaJfl— Some account o f port
Bodega— B r ief account o f the Spani/h fettlements in New Albion.
^Ha v in g quitted St. Diego, we were foon afïifted by a pleafant breeze
from the N.w., with which our courfe wa? directed along the coaft, paf-
fing by the narrow traft o f land- that forms the inner harbour o f that
port, and divides it from an open bay on the external coaft, between
point de la Loma, and a high bluff point lying from it ^’ 351;., about
twelve miles diftant. We paffed between this bluff point and the Coro-
nadoes, the latter lying about 7 miles from the former, from whence the
continent took a direftion s. 18 e ., 6 leagues. The fliores are compofed
of-fteep rocky cliffs, which in général rife, though not very abruptly, to
a very hilly country, remarkable for three ' confpicuous 1 mountains,-in-
tirely detached from each other ; riling in quick afceftt at a little dif-
tance from the Ihore, on nearly a plain and even furface. The north-
ernmoft o f thefe prefented the appearance of a table, in àll direàions from
the ocean. The middle one terminated in a Iharp peak, and the fouth-
ernmoft in an irregular form. The center oné of thefe remarkable
mountains lies from port St. Diego s. 35 e., diftant g leagues, and at a
diftance may ferve to point out that port. Not far from thefe eminences
is fituated (as I was informed) the miflion of St. Miguel, eftablilh-
ed in the year 1787; but it was not Teen,' owing probably to the approach
of night. This was paffed as ufual in Handing to and fro, though
unattended with that ferenity that we had lately been accuftomed to ;
for the wind at N. E . and eaft blew a ftrông gale, attended by very heavy
'3 ' : ^ ' • fqualls,