THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



probably^ be detained fome days after us. He then placed 1776. 

 his quadrant upon Drake's Ifland; and had time, before the 

 Refolution failed, to make obfervations fufRcient for the 

 purpofe we had in view. Our watch made the ifland to lie 

 4° 14', and his, 4° 13^', Weft of Greenwich. Its latitude, 

 as found by MelTrs. Wales and Baily, on the laft voyage, is 

 50° 2 1' 30" North. 



We weighed again at eight in the evening, and flood 

 out of the Sound, with a gentle breeze at North Weft by 

 Weft. 



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