26 deg.

10' west from Greenwich, the Botany Bay fleet passed from the Northern into the Southern Hemisphere.
About three weeks more of very favourable and pleasant weather conveyed them to Rio de Janeiro.
5-6 August 1787 On the 5th of August they anchored off the harbour, and on the evening of the 6th were at their station within it.

The land of Cape Frio had been discovered some days before, but a deficiency of wind from that time a little slackened their course.
Rio de Janeiro, or January River, so called because discovered by Dias de Solis on the feast of St.Januarius, (Sept.

19) 1525, is not in fact a river, though its name denotes that it was then supposed to be so: it is an arm of the sea, into which a considerable number of small rivers descends.
The city of Rio de Janeiro, called by some writers St.Sebastian, from the name of its tutelar patron, is situated on the west side of this bay, within less than a degree of the tropic of Capricorn, and about 43 deg.

west of Greenwich.