Humboldt, in his Cosmos, mentions that during this earthquake a noise like subterraneous thunder was heard at Truxillo, eighty-five leagues north of Callao.
Five leagues south of Chilca, on the river of the same name, lies the village called Cañete, which is the residence of a Sub-prefect.
Five leagues to the south of Huacho are the extensive Salinas, or salt pits, which supply Peru and Chile with excellent salt.
This longitude is nearly the same that is assigned to Cape Circumcision; and at the going down of the sun we were about ninety-five leagues to the south of the latitude it is said to lie in.
At five leagues we came upon the village of the rivers, or Yaguelame.
We cruised close to the coast of San Jose, and at five leagues[26] the estuary begins to develop.
On the morning of this day we began our journey by going eastward and at five leagues came to a marsh which had near by some lands covered with a little pasturage.
At two o'clock we found they were occasioned by a coral bank, of about four or five leagues in circuit.
The first is eighteen leagues from Sandwich Island, and is twenty-four or twenty-five leagues in circuit.
Sandwich Island is twenty-five leagues in circuit; its greatest extent is ten leagues; and it lies in the direction of N.
At four in the afternoon, we passed the Cape, at the distance of four or five leagues, and then steered S.
And so also from the Arecifes to the Sarcales, from Cape Sable to Cape Canso, it is one hundred and thirty-five leagues on the map, or twice the actual distance.
We then steered north, to keep in with the coast; but the wind drawing forward in the morning of the 5th, the sloop was drifted off, by noon, to four or five leagues.
The weather, unfortunately for my bearings, was so hazy that unless objects were eminently conspicuous they could not be distinguished beyond four or five leagues.
They are situated twenty-five leagues westward of the Pernicious Islands.
Upon arriving there, after five days' struggle with a contrary wind, Cook discovered three islands stretching four or five leagues to the north.
Surrounded on all sides by islands, and in a thick fog, Bougainville steered by instinct in a passage only four or five leagues in width, and with a sea so rough that the Etoile was forced to close her hatchways.
The Commodore, for so Anson is always called in the narrative of this voyage, reconnoitered the Island of Mas a Fuero, which is only twenty-five leagues west of Juan Fernandez.
From the river St. John to Tadoussac is sixty-five leagues.
The distance from the mouth of the river St. John to Tadoussac in a direct line is about sixty-five leagues.
From Caramaira to the island of La Fuerte it is fifty leagues, after which, to the entrance of the Gulf of Uraba where the village of Santa Maria Antigua actually stands, it is only thirty-five leagues.
Adding these figures together, Most Holy Father, you will reach a total of fifteen hundred and twenty-five leagues or five thousand seven hundred miles from the cape to the Gulf of San Matteo, which is also called the Gulf of Perdidos.
But it has neither wood, water, or any green thing upon it, being a barren green rock, five leagues broad.
Machian was not truly placed on our chart, in which the equator is made to pass through its middle, whereas we found it five leagues more to the northwards.
At night of the 5th, we anchored in fourteen fathoms near the shore, four or five leagues eastwards of Diu.
Four or five leagues to the north of Cochin, there is a high land within the country, somewhat like a table mountain, yet rounded on the top, having long high mountains to the north of this hill.
At five leagues distance, nearly in 1 degree 38 minutes of north latitude, is the island of San Josef.
Forests till then believed to be impenetrable separated the mission of Javita from that of San Fernando, which was twenty-five leagues distant in a straight line.
A fine road is also discovered near Hato de la Calzada, between Varinas and Canagua, five leagues long, made before the conquest, in the most remote times, by the natives.
The fifth day we made the land four or five leagues to the southward of Valparaiso; and soon after falling calm, a great western swell hurried us in very fast towards the shore.
Five leagues from Orgon we crossed a very aukward passage in a ferry-boat, and were landed in the Pope's territories, about five miles from Avignon.
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