RADACK CHAIN OF ISLANDS. 
ON the 8th of April, at noon, we found our- 
selves, according to our observation, in the la- 
titude 11° 24’ South, and in the longitude 
174° 24°. We had left the north-west point 
of the island of Pola one hundred and forty 
miles behind us: the weather was fine, the 
horizon very clear, but we looked in vain from 
the mast-head for land. 
Hence we gave up any further search in this 
quarter, and directed our course to the north, 
for the shortest way to cut the Equator, and 
then, by the help of the north-east trade-wind, 
to reach Radack, where we intended to stop 
and make observations on the pendulum, the 
results of which, in the neighbourhood of the 
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