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A VOYAGE TO 



,7 So - bath. Whilft we were lying off the South end of this illand, 

 v _ u - _'. we Tent a boat with the Matter onfhore, to look for water ; 

 but after having landed with fome difficulty, he returned 

 unfiiccefsful. 



Cracatoa is cfleemed very healthy, in comparifon of the 

 neighbouring countries. It confifts of high land, rifing 

 gradually on all fides from the fea ; and the whole is co- 

 vered with trees, except a few fpots which the natives have 

 cleared for rice fields. The number of people on the illand 

 is very inconfiderable. Their Chief, as are thofe of all the 

 other iflands in the Straits, is fubject to the King of Bantam. 

 The coral reefs afford plenty of fmall turtles ; but other re- 

 freshments are very fcarce, and fold at an enormous price. 



Latitude of the road where the Rcfolution 



anchored - - - 8° 6' South. 



Longitude, by Mr. Bayly's time-keeper - 104 48' Eaft. 



Ditto, by obfervation - - 105* 36' Eaft. 



Dip of the South end of the magnetic needle 26° 3' 



Variation of the compafs - i° o' Weft. 



On the full and change days, it is high-water at y b in 

 the morning. The water rifes three feet two inches per- 

 pendicular. 



At eight o'clock in the evening, it began to blow frefh 

 from the Weftward, with violent thunder, lightning, and 

 Friday u. rain ; and at three the next morning, we weighed and flood 

 over for Prince's Illand, but the Wefterly wind dying away, 

 was fucceeded by a breeze from the South Eaft, and, at the 

 fame time, a ftrong tide letting to the South Weft prevented 

 our fetching the illand, and obliged us, at two in the after- 

 noon, to drop anchor in fixty-livc fathoms, over a muddy 



bottom, 



