[A mass of fog covering the bottom half of São Miguel Island; the hills of São Miguel Island; fog covering part of Cape Trafalgar, with a sailboat travelling in the foreground; a sailboat travelling by Cape Spartel, with fog covering the top of the promon
5. Saturday 2 (August) - 'At 12 Mid'nt made the Island of St. Michaeles [sic]'"; "5a. St Michaeles [sic] on a clear day"; "6 Wednesday 20 (August) 'At day break discovered the land which proved to be Cape Trafalgar, it being quite hazy, did not have an opportunity of taking a sketch 'til we had passed it several miles but the place being celebrated from the victory of the English over the combined fleets of France and Spain and the death of Lord Nelson, that I made a sketch'"; "Cape Spartel, 1806...7. 'On the African shore we discovered Cape Spartel of which I took a sketch'"; "Ceuta. Spain. dis. 15. m."; George Barrell, Ms., August 2, 1806; August 20, 1806; 1806. s.l., page 9. From a bound account entitled "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Malaga in the Brig Venus and Return in the Schooner Louisiana by George Barrell." Along with Barrell's prose descriptions of life at sea and detailed depictions of Gibraltar and Malaga, the author drew 32 colored illustrations, primarily of landscapes and people he encountered on his journey
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