Having passed the church, you may keep farther from the shore, as you have likewise passed the Chico Bank; and keeping on your course E.S.E. you will see four _ombu_ trees, being the last you will see. After passing the last _ombu_ trees, the shore is level, with shrubs, grass, turfs, and junks, until you make Point Indio, about 15 miles distant. Point Indio is low level land, with only one tree on it; and to the S.E. you can see two large groves of tallow wood and espinillos. These mounts are near Point Piedras and Point Indio. From Point Indio, the S.E. part of the Ortiz Bank bears N. 30° E. by compass, distant about 14 miles. * * * * * INSTRUCTIONS for sailing from Monte Video to Buenos Ayres, when passing by the Channels to the North and to the South of the Chico Bank. _By the North side of the Chico Bank._ 1. Being athwart the points which form the Port of Monte Video, steer to the S.W. of the compass for the space of thirty miles. 2. Then change to the W.S.W. of the compass, until you can make out la Punta del Indio, or Point Indian. 3. Having made Cape Indian, steer to the W. of the compass, until the bearing of the said Cape be at S.S.W. distant 7 or 8 miles. 4. As soon as you have the Cape Indian to the S.S.W. of the compass, steer to the N.W. in order to make the two first buoys of the Ortiz Bank, which you will approach at the distance of about one or half a mile, being cautious to have 15 feet water, in case there should be little water in the river. 5. Here, you will change your course to the W. of the compass, taking care to pass to the distance of the two last buoys, which are to the N.W. of Chico Bank; for if the river should ebb with rapidity, and there should be a strong current on the larboard-tack, you would run the risk to pass too near. Continue to steer to the W. by which means you will make out Ensenada, and the Point Lara, which last you will recognise by a tufted tree, called the _ombu_, which is to the S.E. of this point; and on the brink of the river, before you are out of sight of Point Lara, you will perceive a small wood of _ombus_, situated on the hill of the village of Quilmes; afterwards you will see the towers of Buenos Ayres, and the vessels anchored in the roads, towards which you will direct yourself. _From Punta del Indio, or Cape Indian, passing to the Southward of the Chico Bank._ _Observation, to know La Punta del Indio, or Cape Indian._--Making sail to the N.W. at a distance of about 7 or 8 miles from La Punta de Piedras, or Point Piedras, you observe, to the N.W. of this Point, two woods of _talas_ (American trees), visible at a distance of about 7 miles from the said Cape. To the N.W. of this wood of _talas_, there is a plain, which extends about 4 miles. You will perceive then a small wood, or copse, remarkable by a tree of _tala_, which forms the Point of Cape Indian.