26 Account of the Voyage of Discovery 



ified, as well as that of the Island of Pyletant, the most southerly 

 of the Friendly Islands; and also that of Howe Island. 



A new island, surrounded hy dangerous reefs, was discovered 

 to the east of Tonga, which M. de Freycinet named Rose Island. 



The Urania anchored in Port Jachson on the ISth of Novem- 

 ber 1819; she remained there till the 25th of December, and 

 this interval was employed, as at all the preceding stoppages, in 

 scientific inquiries. M. de Freycinet speaks in this respect with 

 gratitude for the assistance afforded to him by Mr. Macquarie, 

 the governor of the colony. 



On quitting Port .Jackson, the course of the corvette was 

 shaped to pass between Van Diemen's Land and New Zealaml. 

 On the 7th of January 1820, the southern extremity of the latter 

 islands was doubled in sight of Campbell's Island. 



From that moment until nearing the coast of Terra del Fuego 

 the winds were constantly favourable. The Urania reached 59 

 degrees of south latitude; and she found floating ice in the 54th 

 degree. 



On the 5th of February the coast of Terra del Fuego was seen 

 in the neighbourhood of Cape Desolation ; the season was as 

 frightful as the adjoining shores. In the impossibility of reach- 

 ing Christmas Harbour, it became necessary to make for the Bay 

 of Good Success, in the Straits of Lemaire ; but hardly had the 

 anchor dropped, when a furious storm began to cause the cor- 

 vette to drive : there was not a moment to be lost in cutting the 

 cable, and setting sail with all speed, in order to get out of the 

 Bay, by skirting at a very short distance the rocks and breakers 

 which lie upon its north point. 



This dreadful tempest lasted for two days, and made the cor- 

 vette drift considerably to the northward ; which determined 

 M. de Freycinet to bear up for the Falkland Islands, in sight of 

 which they arrived on the 14th of February, according to their 

 reckoning, but the 13th according to European time, they having 

 gained a day in circumnavigating the globe. 



[The public are already acquainted with the loss of the Urania, 

 in consequence of striking on a sunken rock, at the entrance of 

 French E5ay, in the Falkland Islands, and of their being taken 

 off by an American whaler, and brought first to Rio Janeiro, and 

 afterwards to Havre de Grace, where they arrived in safety, with 

 most of the collections made during the voyage.] 



In expectation that more detailed accounts (proceeds the nar- 

 rative) will make known all the importance of their labours, it 

 will suffice to give a rapid glance at tlicm. 



1st. The observations on the pendulum, which formed one of 

 the principal- objects of the voyage, have been made with the 



greatest 



