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""New-Zeeland enjoys, according to the kind informations of Capt. changes 

 Cook, more fettled and more diflindt feafons, changing the tem- 



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perature of the air from warm to cold. This able navigator certain 1) 

 could give the befl: account of it, having paiTed in the Endeavour, 

 about fix months, during their fummer, along the coalls of New- 

 Zeeland. We came afterwards, in March, to the fame iile, and 

 remained till June -, and twice we were there in Odober, and in 



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November; fo that, by this means, a very good judgment might 

 be formed of the feafons of this ifle. In its Southern parts we found 

 in March flill mild weather, which continued partly in April j but 

 in May, the tempeftuous winds, conflani rain, with fleet, hail. 



and fnow, and very great florms of lightning and 



thunder, began 



to fet in; the verdure every where faded, many trees flied their 



leaves;, and the Xnowy fummits of h 



attended by a piercing 



cold, convinced us, that the winter-feafon was begun. 



In the month of June, in Queen Charlotte's Sound, we found 

 the climate milder than in Duiky-Bay; which, however, changed 

 x;onfiderably during our three weeks flay : but, when Capt. Cook 

 .was there in the Endeavour, in 1770, he found the fineft warm. 



every thing 



5.nd even hot weather, in the fummer-feafon, and 



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getating in .the greateft luxuriance. 



We, who had fpent our winter in the tropical ifles, and the 

 Spring in New-Zeeland, and felt the efFeds of a moft uncomfortable 



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