able wherever the water was agitated. This phoſphoreſcence differed in no other reſpect from that uſually obſerved at ſea, than in its greater intenſity, proceeding from the ſuperabundance of phoſphoric globules. Such phoſphoric ſubſtances abound much more in the vicinity of the land, than in the open ſea at the ſame latitude; as I have remarked upon a former occaſion.
A ſlight S.E. breeze enabled us in the afternoon of the following day to direct our courſe towards the mouth of Table Bay. As ſoon as it blew a little freſher, we ſteered with full ſails towards the Pointe des Pendus, ranging very near to the coaſt, our depth according to the ſoundings being pretty uniformly about five toiſes.
About half an hour after five we caſt anchor in a bottom of muddy grey ſand, at the depth of about twenty-four feet, and diſtant 5,130 toiſes from the ſhore. The principal ſteeple in the town bore E. 38° S. The flag upon the Croupe de Lion E. 3° N. The flag at the northernmoſt ſide of the fort E. 48° N. The Iſland Robben N. 1° W.
We had not a ſingle ſick man on board, although the length of our paſſage had reduced us to a very ſcanty daily allowance of water; but we had endeavoured to compenſate for the want of it by a copious uſe of various antiſcorbutic re-
