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3.

To Madeira

August 1768

Now for the first time my Sea sickness left me, & I was sufficiently well to write.

31. Wind Freshend again this morn, observ'd about the Ship several of the Birds calld by the seamen Mother Careys chickens, Procellaria Pelagica Linn. which were thought by them to be a sure presage of a storm, as indeed it provd, for before night it blew so hard as to bring us under our Courses, & make me very sea sick again.

1. Still Blew, Mother Careys chickens had not yet left us, but towards night wind slackened so that we were again tolerably easy, by our reckoning we must make some part of the coast of Spain before Morning.

2. This Morn about 7 saw the coast of Gallicia between Cape Ortegal & Finisterre; weather tolerably fine, so that we could use the casting net, which brought up two kinds of Animals, different from any before taken, they came up in Clusters, both sorts indifferenly in each Cluster, tho much fewer of the Horned ones than of the others. They seem to

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