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the search; and on the 16th, being then in the 

 latitude of 48 45' 9 and in the longitude of 52 E., 

 we saw penguins and divers, and rock- weed floating 

 in the sea. We continued to meet with more or less 

 of these every day, as we proceeded to the eastward; 

 and on the 2 1st, in the latitude of 48 WJ' S., and in 

 the longitude of 65 E., a very large seal was seen. 

 We had now much foggy weather, and, as we ex- 

 pected to fall in with the land every hour, our 

 navigation became both tedious and dangerous. 



At length, on the 24th, at six o'clock in the 

 morning, as we were steering to the eastward, the 

 fog clearing away a little, we saw land*, bearing S. 

 S. E., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to 

 be an island of considerable height, and about three 

 leagues in circuit, t Soon after, we saw another of 

 the same magnitude, one league to the eastward $ - f 



this tedious, but, it is hoped, not unnecessary detail of facts, with 

 one general remark, fully expressive of the disadvantages our 

 author laboured under. He never saw that part of the coast upon 

 which the French had been in 1772; and he never knew that they 

 had been upon another part of it in 1773, which was the very scene 

 of his own operations. Consequently, what he knew of the former 

 voyage, as delineated upon Crozet's chart, only served to perplex 

 and mislead his judgment ; and his total ignorance of the latter, 

 put it out of his power to compare his own observations with those 

 then made by Kerguelen ; though we, who are better instructed, 

 can do this, by tracing the plainest marks of coincidence and 

 agreement. 



* Captain Cook was not the orginal discoverer of these small 

 islands which he now fell in with. It is certain that they had been 

 seen and named by Kerguelen, on his second voyage, in December, 

 1773. Their position, relatively to each other, and to the adjoin- 

 ing coasts of the greater land, as represented on the annexed 

 chart, bears a striking resemblance to Kerguelen's delineation of 

 them; whose chart, however, the public may be assured, was un- 

 known in England till after our's had been engraved. 



\ This is the isle to which Kerguelen gave the name of Croy 

 or Crouy. Besides delineating it upon his chart, he has added a 

 particular view of it, exactly corresponding with Captain Cook's 

 account of its being of considerable height. 



^ Kerguelen called this Isle Rolland, after the name of his own 

 ship. There is also a particular view of it on the French chart. 



