I jo VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



I the land ; (o that long before we faw the 



Iiland of St. Paul, I could fcarccly remark 



phofphoric bodies when the water was 



The thermometer in this pafiage did not fall 

 lower than 8 above o, and did not rilQ higher 

 than 20. 



The mercury in the barometer had rifen to 

 28 inches 7 lines, and had not fallen lower than 

 27 inches 7 lines. 



When in this run we had reached the variable 

 winds, the currents had fet us from 10' to 20' 

 a day to the northward ; but being arrived off the 

 fouth-wclt cOaft of New Holland, we had been 

 ^4fried to the eallward. Thcie different direc- 

 tions are owing to the fituation of the lands. 

 - Our tables for the correction of the irregular 

 going of the time-keepers, occalioned by the dif- 

 tofc of the temperature, extended only to the 

 1 5-th degree of Reaumur's thermometer, and the 

 ctf the balance-wheel of the time-keeper 

 wit If weights, was determined only from the 

 105th degree to the 115th. It had been con- 

 ftantly upwards of 115 , and the temperature of 

 the atmofphere had been very frequently below 

 lift 15th of the thermometer. It was neccflary 

 to have at lcaft this degree of heat in the place 

 re bur time-keepers were depofited. A com- 

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