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To Cape Horn
which have been all along sand of different colours which had we been nearer the land would have been intermixd with shells their experience on this coast must however be but slight
This whole day the evening especialy has been a series of calms & squalls towards evening night a thunderstorm in which the lightning was remarkably bright & rangd in long streaks sometimes horizontal & sometimes perpendicular the thunder was not loud but continued an immence while with a noise in some claps so like the flapping of sails that had I not been upon deck I should not have beleivd it to be thunder Just before the storm we had an appearance of land to the westward which all who had not been in these latitudes before imagind to
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