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A VOYAGE TO 



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November, 

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Wednel". 20. 



Saturday 23. 



In the morning on the 20th, we fet out from the Pearl; 

 and going a diflerent road from that by which we came, 

 pafTcd through a country wholly uncukivated, till we got 

 to the Tvger hills, when fome tolerable corn-fields appeared. 

 At noon, we flopped in a hollow for refre(l:iment ; bur, in 

 walking about here, were plagued with a vaft number of 

 mufquitoes or fand flies, which were the firfl: I faw in the 

 country, hi the afternoon we fet out again, and in the 

 evening arrived at the Cape Town, tired with the jolting 

 waggon." 



On the 23d, we got on board the obfervarory, clock, &c. 

 By a mean of the feveral refults of the equal altitudes of the 

 Sun, taken with the aftronomical quadrant, the aftrono- 

 mical clock was found to lofe on fidercal time, 1' 8",368 

 each day. The pendulum was kept at the fame length as at 

 Greenwich, where the daily lofs of the clock on fidereal 

 time, was 4". 



The watch, by the mean of the refults of fifteen 

 days obfervations, was found to be lofmg 2",26i, on 

 mean time, each day; which is i",o5q more than at Green- 

 wich: and on the 21ft, at noon, ihe was too flow for 

 mean time by i". 20' 57", 66. From this, 6' 48",956, is 

 to be fubftrafted, for what flie was too flow on the 

 nth of June at Greenwich, and her daily rate fincc; 

 and the remainder, i>iz. 1". 14'. 08", 704, or 18° 32' 10", 

 will be the longitude of the Cape Town by the watch. Its 

 true longitude, as found by MefTrs. Mafon and Dixon, is 



" d'un feul bloc de granit crevafle dans plufieurs endroits." Foya^e mix Indes, 

 Tom. II. p. 91. 



Mr. Sonnerat tells us, that Mr. Gordon, Commander of the troops at the Cape, 

 had lately made three journies up the country, from which, when he publifhes his 

 Tournal, we may expe<n much curious information. 



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