37i A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



nnd at five in the evening Cape Ortegal, bearing 

 S. S. E. diftance feven leagues. 



Don; George Ji'an, by his reckoning, concluded 

 the difference of longitude between Cape Francois and 

 Cape Prior to be 59° 30' which is however confide- 

 rably different from the real longitude : but this I at- 

 tribute to the flrong tendency of the currents eaflward 

 at the mouth of the Caycos channel. 



When the weather permitted, he continued the 

 obfervations of the variation of the needle i and tak- 

 ing his meridian from the point of departure, which 

 was Cape Francois, they proved as follows: 



On making Cape Ortegal, the courfe was altered 

 to N. N. E. and on the 31ft, at feven in the morning, 

 the fquadron had again fight of land, which proved 

 that of Breit-bay; and at three in the afternoon, the 

 whole fleet came to an anchor in that harbour. 



Don George Juan being thus landed in France, 

 embraced with pleafure this opportunity of paying his 

 refpcóts to fo illuftrious a body as the royal academy 

 of fcicnces; at the fame time communicating feveral 

 pardculars reladng to our operations in Peru; toge- 

 ther with fome obfervations concerning the aberration 

 of light, and its eífeél on the fixed (tars, according 

 to his own accurate obfervations in the province of 

 Quito. And that celebrated body were pleafed to 

 c.yprefs their citcem of his applicadon and knowledge, 



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