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ing to Europe. Accordingly he propofed to fpend 

 this interval in making freili obfcrvations and expe- 

 riments, concluding that the atmofphere of Lima, 

 during the fummer fcafon, would be more favourable 

 to his defigns than that of Quito or the mountains. 

 On his arrival at that city, the vice-roy, who was no 

 ftranger to his great abilities, and pleafed with the 

 prudent choice of the univerfity, conferred on him, 

 ^.t the fame time of his being inverted with the pro- 

 feilbrlliip, the poft of cofmographer to his majeily ; 

 with other advantages annexed to it. But this gentle- 

 rnan was far from propofing to make any longer ilay 

 there than what ihefe affairs required] no advantages 

 cr honours beino; fufficient to make him forget the ob- 

 ligations he was under of giving an account of his voyage 

 and obfervations to his fovereign and the academy, 

 efpecially as being the eldeft of the three academiciansj 

 fo that all the teñimonies of elleem could not iupprefs 

 his uneafinefs at the delay. 



M.deJuiTieU;, though with the fame regret as the for- 

 mer, determined to continue fome tune at Quito, 

 with M. Hugot, rill he faw what turn the war would 

 take, that he might efcape, in his return to Europe, 

 thofe dangers ihcn fo ccinmon at fea. M. Verguin 

 chofe to go by the way of Panama: and the others, 

 except the two who .died in the country, one at Cay-^ 

 nmbe and Cuenqa, were difpi-ifedj one fetding in 

 Qiiito. Thus, the whole French company ieparated : 

 and it muft be confidered as a fingular happinefs, that 

 afier fuch a fcene of labours, hardlhips, and dangers, in 

 fuch a variety of climates, and amidft fuch inhoi'pitable 

 (defarts and precipices, cur operations were accurately 

 pei formed : and vve capable of entering on a new fcene 

 of dangers and difficul.ies, which it was our fortune to 

 experience before we were in a condition of prefeniing 

 Xhh work to the publick. 



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