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A VOYAGE TO 



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to be French men-of-war. They took no particular 

 notice of us, nor we of them. 



At ten o'clock in the morning of the 22d, we saw 

 Cape Ortegal ; which at noon bore south-east, half 

 south, about four leagues distant. At this time we 

 were in the latitude of 44 6' north ; and our longi- 

 tude, by the watch, was 8 23' west. 



After two days of calm weather we passed Cape 

 Finisterre, on the afternoon of the 24th, with a fine 

 gale at north north-east. The longitude of this 

 Cape, by the watch, is 9 29' west; and, by the 

 mean of forty-one lunar observations, made before 

 and after we passed it, and reduced to it by the 

 watch, the result was 9 19' 12". 



On the 30th, at six minutes and thirty-eight 

 seconds past ten o'clock at night, apparent time, I 

 observed with a night-telescope, the moon totally 

 eclipsed, By the ephemeris, the same happened at 

 Greenwich at nine minutes past eleven o'clock : the 

 difference being one hour, two minutes, and twenty- 

 two seconds, or 15 e 35' 30" of longitude. The watch, 

 for the same time, gave 15 26' 45" longitude west ; 

 and latitude 31 10' north. No other observation 

 could be made on this eclipse, as the moon was hid 

 behind the clouds the greater part of the time ; and, 

 in particular, when the beginning and end of total 

 darkness, and the end of the eclipse, happened. 



Finding that we had not hay and corn sufficient for 

 the subsistence of the stock of animals on board, till 

 our arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, I determined 

 to touch at Teneriffe, to get a supply of these, and 

 of the usual refreshments for ourselves ; thinking that 

 island, for such purposes, better adapted than Ma- 

 deira. At four in the afternoon of the 31st, we saw 

 Teneriffe, and steered for the eastern part. At nine, 

 being near it, we hauled up, and stood off and on 

 during the night. 



At day-light, on the morning of the 1st of August, 

 we sailed round the east Point of the island \ and, 



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