1775. n is amazing to fee how the different animals, which in-
Jan“-y' < habit this little fpot, are mutually reconciled. They feem to
have entered into a league not to difturb each other’s tranquillity.'
The fea-lions occupy moll; of the fea-coàft ; the
fea-bears take up their abode in the ifle ; the Ihags have poll
in the higheft cliffs ; the penguins fix their quarters where
there is the moll eafy communication to and from the fea ;
and the other birds chufe more retired places. We ;have
feen all thefe animals mix together, like cjomeftic cattle and
poultry in a farm-yard, without one attempting to moleft
the other. Nay, I have often obferved the eagles and vultures
fitting on the hillocks among the fhags, without the
latter, either young or old, being dilturbed at their prefence.
It may be afked how thefe birds pf prey live ? I fuppofe, on
the carcaffes of feals and birds which die by various caufes ;
and probably not a few, as they are fô numerous.
This very imperfect account is written more with a view
to aflift my own memory, than to give information to others.
I am neither a botanift nor a naturalift; and have not words
to defcribe the productions of Nature, either in the one
branch of knowledge or the other.
C H A P . V.
Proceedings after leaving Staten I f and, with an .Account
of the Difcovery of the. Ife of Georgia, and a
Defcription of it.
AVING left the land in the evening of the 3d, as
' before-mentioned, we ,faw i f again next morning, at
three o’clock, bearing Weft. Wind continued to blow a
fteady frefti breeze till fix P. M. when it fluffed in a heavy
fquall to S. W., which came fo fuddenly upon us, that
we had not time to take in the fails, and was the occa-
fion of carrying away a top-gallant mall, a lludding-fail -
boom, and a fore ftudding-fail.. The fquall ended in a
heavy Ihower of rain, but the wind remained at S. W. Our
courfe was S. E., with a view of difcovering that extenfiv©
coaft, laid down by Mr. Dalrymple in his chart, in which is
the Gulph of St. Sebaftian. I defigned to make the weftern
point of that Gulph, in order to have all the other parts before
me. Indeed, I had fome doubt of the exiftence of fuch
Pi i i
a coaft; and this appeared to me the beft route for clearing
it up, and for exploring the fouthern part of this-
ocean..
«775*
January.-
Wednef. 4.
On the 5-tli, frelh gales, and wet and cloudy weather. At Thurfday 5..
noon obferved in 570 9’, longitude made from Cape Saint
John, 50 2' Eaft. At fix o’clock P. M., being in the latitude
57° 21', and in longitude 57" 45' Well, the variation was
21° 38’ Eaft.