57 deg.
S.[108] "Being unable to sail above them, they held their course to
the north; and taking a N.W. course in the evening from Barnevelt's
islands, they saw land N.W. and N.N.W. from them, being the lofty
mountainous land covered with snow, which lies to the south of the
straits of Magellan, [called Terra del Fuego,] and which ends in a sharp
point, to which they gave the name of Cape Horn, which is in lat. 57 deg.
48' S."[109]
[Footnote 108: Only 56 deg., so that by some inaccuracy of instruments or
calculation, the observations of the latitude, in this voyage, seem all
considerably too high. - E.]
[Footnote 109: The course in the text within inverted commas, from
Barnevelt's islands to Cape Horn, is evidently erroneously stated. It
ought to have run thus. "Being unable to pass to the north of these
islands, they held their course S.W. seeing land on the N.W. and N.N.W.
of their course, which ended in a sharp point, which they named Cape
Horn." - Cape Horn is in lat. 56 deg. 15' S. and long. 67 deg. 45' W. from
Greenwich. - E.]
They now held their course westwards, being assisted by a strong current
in that direction; yet had the wind from the north, and had heavy
billows meeting them from the west.
