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low, but a little in-shore there is a high range of hills, the outside
of -n-hich is verj' steep: to the northward of this point there is a
small rocky bay, "which appears to answer better to the description
of Las Animas than the other; it did not appear a fit place for vessels,
and the landing was bad. The north point of this bay is a
steep rocky point, with a round b^o^vn hill rising directly from the
water's edge; the sides of the hills are crossed by dark veins, running
in difTerent directions, which are very remarkable. To the
northward of tliis point there is a deep bay, which, from the description,
must be Chaneral: the south side of it is rocky with small
coves, but the landing appeai-ed to be bad; the east and north
shores of it were low and sandy, and a heavy surf was breaking on
the beach. We could see no signs of any people, or piles of ore,
along the coast; and as it did not appear a good place for vessels,
and our time was short, it was not thought worth a more particular
examination, nie north point of the bay is low and rocky, with a
liigh range a little in-shore. To the northward of this point the
hills and coast are both composed of brown and red rocks, with a
few bushes on the summits of some of the hills : the sandy appearance
the hills have to the southwai'd ceases, and the prospect is, if
possible, more barren.
Nearly nine miles to the northward of the point of this bay is
Sdgak Loaf Isl.and, which is about half a mile from the shore ; in
coming from the southward, there is a high sugar loaf hill on the
main, a little to the southward of the islaBd, for which it may be
mistaken, but the island is not so high and the summit is sharper.
Between Sugar Loaf Island and Chaneral, the coast is rocky and
affords no shelter: there is a small bay to the southward of the
passage, between the island and the main, which would afford shelter
from northerly wmds, but with southerly it is exposed, and the
landing is very bad. In the middle of the passage there are five
fathoms in the shaUowest part: the water in the northern end of it
is smooth, and a vessel might anchor off the point of the island,
sheltered from southerly winds, in six or seven fathoms; but after
eight fathoms it deepens suddenly to thirteen and twenty fathoms,
about half a mile from the island. There is a small bay on the
main, to the northward of the channel, where a vessel would be
sheltered from southerly winds, but we did not examine it.
About twenty miles to the northwai'd of the Sugar Loaf Island
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there is a projecting point, with some small rocky islets off it, which
we supposed to be Point Baflena, from the description given at Port
Caldera. Between the point and the Sugar Loaf Island, the coast
runs back a little, and is rocky, with a high range of hills running
close to the shore. A little to the northward of Point BaUena there
is a small bay. with a rocky islet about half a mUe off the south
point of it ; the top of the islet is white, and answers the description
given to us of a port called Ballenita: but it is not worth
the name ofa port; it is very rocky, with two or three small patches
of sandy beaches, in which a heavy surf was breaking; the hills
run close to the water, and have a very rugged appearance. A
little to the northward of tliis there is another bay, which seemed to
be Lavata : the south point has several low rugged points upon it,
and in-shore the hills rise very steep, l'hère is a small cove with
excellent landmg, directly behind this point, on which we anchored;
there was a better-looking port inside, but it was so far from the
outer coast, that our time would not allow more than a hasty glance.
The inner cove of the bay m which we anchored appeared to
afford good shelter from southerly winds, and the water was very
smooth. A little to the northward of this bay there is a point,
which, till close, appears to be an island: but it is joined to the
shore by a low shingle spit : the summit of it is rugged, with several
steep peaks on it : several rocky islets lie scattered off the point.
Near three miles and a half to the northward of this, there is another
point, very rugged, and with a high round hummock a little
in-shore : to the southward of this point there is a deep bay, in which
we expected to findPaposo, as we were some distance to the northward
of its position in the old charts, but there were no appearances
of any houses or inhabitants : the bay is very rocky, and does not
afford good anchorage ; several rocks Ue off the south point, and a
Uttle inside it there is a reef running half-a-mile from the shore: in
the bottom of the bay there ore several small white islets ; and two
or thi-ee small sandy coves, which are not large enough to afford
shelter for a vessel. This bay is called Isla Blanca.
About three miles from the north point of the bay, there is a
white islet, with some nigged hummocks upon it : a little m-shore
there is a hill of a much lighter colour than any round it ; to the northw
a r d of this there is a deep bay, in which we were certain of findmg
Paposo. and. as we were becahned, I went in a boat to search for it ;
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