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J776. Nor did the extraordinary care of thofe at the head of the 



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c — , — -» naval department flop here. They were equally felicitous 

 to afford us every afCftance towards rendering our voyage 

 of public utility. Accordingly, we received on board, next 



•juefdayii. day, fcvcral aftronomical and nautical inftruments, which 

 the Board of Longitude intruded to me, and to Mr. King, 

 my fecond Lieutenant -, we having engaged to that Board to 

 make all the necefTary obfervations, during the voyage, for 

 the improvement of aftronomy and navigation ; and, by our 

 joint labours, to fupply the place of a profefTed obfervator. 

 Such a perfon had been originally intended to be fent out in 

 my fliip. 



The Board, likewife, put into our pofTeffion the fame 

 watch, or time-keeper, which I had carried out in my lad 

 voyage, and had performed its part fo well. It was a copy 

 of Mr. Harrifon's, conftrudcd by Mr. Kendall. This day, at 

 noon, it was found to be too How for mean time at Green- 

 wich, by 3', 31", 890; and by its rate of going, it loft, on 

 mean time, i", 20^ per day. 



Another time keeper, and the fame number and fort of 

 inftruments for making obfervations, were put on board the 

 Difcovery, under the caj-e of Mr. William Bailey ; who, 

 having already given fatisfacTiory proofs of his fkill and di- 

 ligence as an obfervator, while employed in Captain Fur- 

 neaux's fhip, during the late voyage, was engaged a fecond 

 time, in that capacity, to embark with Captain Gierke. 



Mr. Anderfon, my furgeon, who, to Ikill in his immediate 

 profeffion, added great proficiency in natural hiftory, was 

 as willing as he was well qualified, to defcribe every thing 

 in that branch of fcience which fhould occur worthy of no- 

 tice. As he had already vifited the South Sea iflands in the 

 fame fliip, and been of fingular fervice, by enabling me to 



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