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ed another idand, to which, on account of the number of birds 

 they faw upon it, they gave the name of "Bird Ifland." 

 This ifland is of larger extent than the former, lies clofe to 

 the N. E. point of the main land, which was called " Cape 

 North." After having cleared the padagc between thefe 

 two iflands, they purfucd their coafting voyage to " Cape 

 Bvdler," and at Length arrived at a bay, which they deno- 

 minated " Pofrcffioii bay," fttuated in S. lat. 54 5'. W. 

 long. 37" 18, II leagues E. of Cape North. The land in 

 Tihich this bay lies, was at firft judged to be part of a 

 great continent ; but upon coailing round the whole coun- 

 try, it was found to be an ifland, about 70 leagues in cir- 

 cuit. Between this bay and Cape Buller lies the " Bay of 

 Ifles,'" fo named on account of fevcral fmall illes lying in and 

 before it. The next projefting point was called " Cape 

 •Siiunders,'' and beyond this is a large bay, which was 

 named "Cumberland Bay." The next projecling land, which 

 was an ifland appearing to be the extremity of the coaft 

 to the eaft, was called " Cape Charlotte," and on the weft 

 fide of it lay a bay, which was named the '' Royal Bay,' 

 the W. point of it being called " Cape George." Thefe 

 two capes are diftant from each other fix leagues. The 

 ifland above mentioned, diltant in the direction of S. by E. 

 eight leagues from Cape Charlotte, was denominated 

 •'Cooper's Ifle," which is a rock of confiderable height, 

 about five miles in circuit, and one mile from the main. 

 The coaft between them forms a large bay, named " Sand- 

 wich Bay. ' At Cooper's Ifle the main coaft takes a S. W. 

 direftion for the fpace of four or five leagues to a point 

 which Capt. Cook called Cape Difappointment. Off this 

 are three fmall ifles, the fouthernmoft of which is green, low, 

 and flat, and lying one league from the Cape. Advancing 

 towards the S. W., land opened beyond the Cape, which 

 proved to be an ifland, and was called " Pickerfgill ifland." 

 In failing round this ifland, our navigators were almoft con- 

 tinually involved in a thick mift, which led them to appre- 

 hend that they might be furrounded with dangerous rocks 



Cook's Second Voyage, vol. ii. 



Georgi-4, a townfliip of America, in the ftate of Ver- 

 mont and county of Franklin, containing ic68 inhabitants. 

 It isfituated on' lake Champlain, oppofite to the north end 

 of South Hero ifland, and joins Milton on the fouth and St. 

 Alban's on the north. The river La Moille travcrfes the 

 S. E. corner of this townfliip. 



Georgi.a, Gulf of, a large gulf of the North Pacific 

 <>cean, between the continent of North America and Quadra 

 and Vancouver's ifland; about 120 miles in length from 

 north to fouth ; the breadth varying from 6 to 20 miles. It 

 contains feveral clufters of iflands, and branches off into a 



great number of canals, mod or all which were examiircd hj 

 Capt. Vancouver and his officers 



GEORGIAN Planet, or Georgium Sidtis, in 

 AJironomyy the name given by Dr. Herfchel, the dif- 

 coverer, to the feventh primary planet of the folar fyfteni. 

 It is now generally known, particulaidy on the continent, 

 by the name of Uranus. 



This planet was difcovered by Dr. Herfchel on the 13th 

 March, 1 78 I. It is fuppofed that other aflronomers have 

 obfcrved it, and inferted it in their catalogues as a fixed 

 ftar. But Dr. Herfchel, when he firft faw it, was ftruck with 

 its appearance, which feemcd to differ from that of the 

 neighbouring fmall ftars. He happened to be accidentally en- 

 gaged in examining 'he fmall flars near the feet of Gemini, 

 and he obferved one confiderably larger than the reft, but 

 it not being quite fo brilliant, he fufpefted that it might 

 be a comet ; in confequence of which he obferved it with 

 different magnifying powers, from 227, with which he dif- 

 covered it, to 2010, and found that its apparent magnitude 

 increafed in proportion, contrary to what takes place in 

 the fixed liars. He tlierefore meafured its diflance from 

 fome of the neighbouring fixed flars, and comparing its dif- 

 tance for feveral nights he found that it moved at the 

 rate of about 2|'' in an hour. Dr. Herfchel wrote im- 

 mediately to the Royal Society, that other ailronomers 

 might join in obferving it ; upon which it was found and 

 obferved by Dr. Mafkelyne, who almoft immediately de- 

 clared that he fufpefted it to be a planet ; and on April 1, 

 he wrote an account of this difcovery to the aflronomers at 

 Paris, fo that it was foon obferved by all the aftronomers 

 in Europe. Mr. Lexell was then in England, and applied 

 himfelf to compute the orbit upon the fuppofition that it was 

 a comet ; he therefore, according to the ufual manner in 

 fuch a cafe, fuppofed the orbit to be a parabola, and af- 

 fwined feveral pcriiielion diftances, 6, 8, 10, II, 12, 14, 16, 

 and 18 times the earth's diflance from the fun, and found 

 that any perihelion diftance between 14 and 18, would 

 anfwcr very well to the obfervations. Bofcovich printed 

 a memoir on the fubjeft, in which he Ihewed that there 

 were four different parabolas in which a body miglit move, 

 and yet the computed places would agree with the obfer- 

 vations which had then been made. Other aftronomers, 

 however, found that a circular orbit, whofe radius was 

 about 18 times the diflance of the fun from the earthy 

 would agree better with the obfervations ; and con- 

 firmed Dr. Mafliclyne's opinion that it was a pfanet. 

 Upon the fuppofition, therefore, of a circular orbit, M. de la 

 Lande proceeded to inveftlgate its magnitude from the 

 following obfervations. Mem. de l'Acad.-Roy. des Sci. 1 779. 



Time of obfervation 



Right afcenfion obferved 



April 25, 1 78 1, 

 at 9" 47' 



z 25 15' 27" 



July 31, 1 78 1, 

 at 15'- 33' 



3' 1° 7' 49" 



Dec. 12, 1 78 1, 

 at lo'' 10' 



3' 1° 23' 31" 



North decUnation obferved . 



23 35 34 



23 40 25 



23 42 47 



Longitude 



2 25 39 17 



1 2 7 



3 1 16 28 



Latitude, north 



II 36 



24 



>4 54 



Nutation in longitude 



+ 10 



+ 



Aberration in Iwngitude 



'9 



+ 21 



- 18 



Sim's longitude from the mean equinox 



I 5 58 53 



4 9 7 13 



21 21 50 



Log. of the fun's diftance 



0.003196 



0.006272 



9-992993_ 



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