16 INTRODUCTION. 



and the care with which the timber had been pre- 

 pared, than that, upon an accurate survey after its 

 return, it was found so good, that the purchasers* 

 resolved to send it on another voyage to the South 

 Sea. 



I bespoke the astronomical and physical instru- 

 ments in England of the justly celebrated Trough- 

 ton ; they consisted of several sextants, compasses, 

 two marine barometers, a dipping-needle, an aero- 

 meter, several thermometers, hygrometers, &c. ; to 

 these I added the log and sounding-machine in- 

 vented by Massey, a Six-thermometer, a mountain 

 barometer, a camera lucida ; the last articles by 

 the ingenious artist, Thomas Jones, a pupil of the 

 celebrated Ramsden, and two telescopes by Tully. 

 1 bespoke two chronometers ; a pocket chrono- 

 meter by Barraud, who makes more chronometers 

 than any other artist, and for this reason alone 

 deserves the greatest confidence j the instrument 

 which he furnished was in fact excellent, and very 

 much better than another, which I had bespoke of 

 him at the same price for the Admiralty, which 

 stopped soon after my arrival at St. Petersburg, 

 and was obliged to be given to Mr. Wenham, the 

 partner of Breguel, to be repaired. Each of these 

 chronometers cost 50 guineas. The other chro- 



* As Count Romanzoff had no farther use for the ship, he 

 disposed of it to the American Company, with all its tackling, 

 &c., even including the chronometers and astronomical instru- 

 ments. 



