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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The year 1751. January ift, 36 35' N. L. In the forenoon we faw Cape Vincent, a promontory in Spain. The fhores appeared high and white, and the ever-green trees made the country look very fine. January 4th, The Granaie mountain fhewed itfelf to the right at a great diftance, on account of its prodigious height. The Rock St. Pedro, which was to the right, was quite frefh in our memories, on account of the fhip called Sweden, which the crown of Sweden had defigned for a prefent to the Turkifh Emperor, but was loft here in November 1738, when Captain Wagenfeld, was conducing her to Conftantinople. Of the artillery which was recovered out of the water, fix brafs cannon and a mortar are flill to be feen at Cadiz, all infcribed with the name a.nd arms of that mof t glorious King- Charles Charles the Twelfth and are kept there for the Swedifh fervice. White gulls and herring gulls (Larus cams etfufcus) were here in fuch flights, as if they Would difpute with the fifhermen about their right of fifhing. The greater and leffer P or cos are two rocks on the flarboard, at the entrance of the port of Cadiz: we happily paffed by them. When the water is low, they are yery confpicuous; but when it is high, they are known by the breakers only. St. Sebqftian's is a caftle upon a little ifland near Cadiz, which, with two other caftles, ferve to defend this town. The Gulf of Cadiz, or the Road, is well known under the name of the Spanifh-bay, where the fhips of many nations yearly come, and where we likewife caft anchor, after a fix weeks voyage, and having fuffered a great ftorra. After faluting, we were welcomed by feveral of our countrymen. We faw Cadiz Puerto real, on the bay; Puerto de SanttaMaria direftly oppofite Cadiz, and Rota further on towards the fea. ...