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A VOYAGE TO 



CHAP. IL 



"Pajfage of the Refolut'wa to Teneriffe. — Reception there. — 

 Defcription of Santa Cruz Road. — Refrefmients to be 

 met with. — Qhfervations for fixing the Longitude of 

 Teneriffe. — So?m Account of the Ifland. — Botajiical Qh- 

 fervations. — Cities of Santa C?'uz and Lagu?ia. — 

 Agriculture^ — Air a?id Climate. — Cojmnerce, — Inha- 

 hitafits. 



1776- 1X7^ 1^^^ "°^ ^^^"^ ^^'^S o^t o^ Plymouth Sound, before 



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the wind came more weflerly, and blew frefli, io 

 ff'day 12. {]^^j\^^g wzr& obliged to ply down the Channel j and it was 

 Sunday 14. riot till the 14th, at eight in the evening, that we were off 



the Lizard. 

 Tuefday 16. On the i6th, at noon, St. Agnes's Light-houfe on the Ifles 

 of Scilly, bore North Weft by Weft, diftant feven or eight 

 miles. Our latitude was, now, 49° 53' 30" North, and our 

 longitude, by the watch, 6° 11' Weft. Hence, I reckon that 

 St. Agnes's Light-houfe is in 49° 57' 30" North latitude, and 

 in 6° 20' of Weft longitude. 



•^Wednef. 17. On the 17th * and i8th we were off Ufliant, and found the 

 longitude of the ifland to be, by the watch, 5° 18' 37" Weft. 

 The variation was 23° o' 50", in the fame diredion. 



* It appears from Captain Cook's log-book, that he began his judicious operations 

 for preferving the health of his crew, very enly in the vcyage. On the 17th, the 

 {hip was fmoked between decks with gun-powder. The fpare fails alfo were then 

 well aired. 



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