TABLES 



OF THE 



ROUTE OF THE ESPERANCE*, 



DURING THE YEARS 



1791, 1792, and 1/03, 



>RO>I THE TIME OF 



HER DEPARTURE FROM EUROPE 



TILL 



IIER ARRIVAL AT S0URAI3AYA. 



I\ thcTe Tables will be found the Ship's place at noon ; the 

 Variation of the Compafs, diftinguifhed by s. r. when it W';is 

 obfervcd at fun-rife ; by s. s. when it was obferved at fun-fot ; 

 and by a'z. when it is the refult of an Azimuth ; the degree of 

 temperature by Reaumur's Thermometer + ; and the height of 

 the mercury in the Barometer at noon ; the dircftion of the 

 Winds, and the ftate of tlie Weather. 



* In the Introdulion to this Work, the Author has acknowledged his 

 obligations to M. Le or a x d, one cf the Officers of the Efpcrance, ^^hc, 

 among other nautical information, furniihed him with the folloxsini; 

 Tables of the Route of that Ship ; but as the Efjicrance never parte! 

 companv, or was Icarcely ever out of fight of the Recherche, thefc may 

 iulHv be coiilidercd as the Tables of the Roatcot both Ihips. The T raiif- 

 lator is induced to make this oblervation, in order to account tor t;;c 

 trifling differences that may occafionally occur between the latitudes a-:d 

 longitudes in the text, and thofe in the Tables. 



t It was a Mercurial Thermometer. The fcale of pioporticn betv:e,'r: 

 Reaumui's Thermometer and that of F.;nicnheit is a* two degrees ai;d a 

 'jfuait-r to oi'.e. Reaumur fix-.-) hi- {' :-i\\i^ p;!-u a'. -> 1 



