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To Brasil
Novr.
that no business is done here from 10 till 2 on account of the intense heat
13. This Morn the Harbour of Rio Janeiro was right ahead about 2 leagues off but it being quite Calm we made our aproaches very slowly The sea was inconceveably full of small vermes which we took without the least dificulty they were almost all new except Beroe labiata, Medusa radiata fimbriata & Chrystallina Dagysa. Soon after that a fishing boat Came a board & sold us three Scombers which proved to be new & were calld Salmoneus his baites with were Clupea Chinensis of which we also procurd specimens
As soon as we came well into the River the Captn sent Mr Hicks his first Leutenant with a midshipman to get a
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