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with his own hand, he drew a very good reprefentation of a '777- 

 lizard on a piece of papery as alfo of a fnake, in order to 

 fhew what he meant. 



Though much has been faid, in the Narratives of my Two 

 former Voyages, about this country and its inhabitants, 

 Mr. Anderfon's Remarks, as ferving either to confirm or to 

 corredt our former accounts, may not be fuperfluous. He 

 had been three times with me in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 

 during my laft Voyage ; and, after this fourth vilit, what 

 he thought proper to record, may be confidered as the re- 

 fult of fufficient obfervation. The Reader will find it in the 

 next Chapter ; and I have nothing farther to add, before I 

 quit New Zealand, but to give fome account of the aftro- 

 nomical and nautical obfervations made during our flay 

 there. 



The Longitude of the Obfervatory in Ship 

 Cove, by a mean of 103 fets of obferva- 

 tions, each fet confiding of fix or more 

 obferved diftances, was _ _ _ 174*25' 15" Eafl, 



By the time-keeper, at Greenwich rate, it 

 was - - - _ _ « 



By ditto, at the Cape rate, it was 



Variation of the compafs, being the mean 

 of fix needles, obferved on board the fhip 



By the fame needles on fhore, it was 



The dip of the South end, obferved on 



fhore, was ... » - 63 42 o 



By a mean of the refults of eleven days obfervations, the 

 time-keeper was too flow for mean time, on February 22 at 

 noon, by II* 50' 37",396; and fhe was found to be lofing 



on 



