Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0188
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[Page 188]
To Cape Horn
& most of this southing our latitude made us nearly opposite Baye Sans Fond near which place Mr Dalrymple supposes there to be a passage quite through the Continent of America it should seem by what we have seen that there should be at least a very large river & that probably at this time much flooded if even that could have so great an effect as (supposing us to be 20 leagues from the land) discolouring the water to almost a clay Colour & bringing of insects who never fly 20 yards such as grylli & one aranea
I lament much not having tasted the water at the time which never occurrd to me but probably the difference of saltness would have been hardly perceptible to the taste & my Hydrostatick balance being broke I had no other method of trying it