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** he cannot pretend to affirm whether it was the 

 ** author of the letter who bottled it up, in the Bay 

 " of Bifcay, the 1 7th of Auguft 1786, Latitude 45 

 *' degrees, 10 minutes North, Longitude 10 de- 

 " grees, 56 minutes Weft, as it is dated ; or whe- 

 '* ther fome perfon on board the veffel which pafTed 

 ** them, committed it to the waves. 



*' The veflel's name was Nacket, and the one on 

 ** her voyage to Bengal was called the Intelligence, 

 ** commanded by Captain Linjîon. 



" The names of the fifhermen are Charles le Ro' 

 ** main, mafter of the boat ; Nicholas Frefnel, Jean- 

 " Baptijle le Bas, and Charles T Ami, mariners, all of 

 " the pariQi of Arromanches. 



" Signed, 



" PHILIPPE-DE-DELLEVILLE." 



The pariQ-j of Arromanches is about i degree 

 Weft Longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich, 

 and in 49 degrees, 5 minutes North Latitude. 

 Accordingly the bottle thrown into the Sea in 10 

 degrees, 56 minutes Weft Longitude, and 45 de- 

 grees, 10 minutes North Latitude^ floated nearly 10 

 degrees of Longitude, which, in that parallel, at 

 the rate of about 17 leagues to a degree, make 



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