DECEMBER 31. (Wednesday.)
We are now in the latitudes commonly known by the name
of " the Horse Latitudes." During the union of America and
Great Britain, great numbers of' horses used to be exported to
the cQjonies, and the winds in these latitudes are so capricious,
squally, and troublesome-now a gale and then a dead calm,
now a fair wind and the next moment a foul one-that more
horses used to die in this portion of the passage than during all
the remainder of it. These horse-killing latitudes extend from,
29O to 25 O or 241/2 O.
