At noon, we were in latitude 37° 50’, longitude 210° 29’ W. The extreams of the land extended from N.W. to E.N.E and a remarkable point bore N. 20 E. at the distance of about four leagues. This point rises in a round hillock, very much resembling the Ram Head at the entrance of Plymouth Sound, and therefore I called it by the same name. The variation by an azimuth, taken this morning, was 3° 7’ E.; and what we had now seen of the land, appeared low and level: the sea shore was a white sand, but the country within was green and woody. About one o’clock, we saw three water spouts at once; two were between us and the shore, and the third at some distance, upon our larboard quarter: this phænomenon is so well known, that it is not necessary to give a particular description of it here.

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