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celve, with my naked eye, an innumerable quantity 

 of animalcules floating about alive, which enlight- 

 ened that fmall body of water to an amazing degree. 

 From thence I conclude that the whole mafs of water 

 muft be filled with this fmall fifh fpawn or animal- 

 cules, and that this is without all doubt the reafbn of 

 the water's appearing fo white in the night-time. We 

 run by the log, from the time we firft faw it till 

 the latter part of the fecond night (the time we loft 

 fight of it) about 170 miles. 



N. B. Latitude about 15 10' N. and S. W. ditf. 

 from Cape Aden 12 18' E. 



On the 30th of Auguft 1769, at 3 o'clock in the 

 morning, I faw a comet 8° 20' from Aldebaran 

 S. W. and the tail ftreaming to the Weftward. 



I made the meridian diftance from Cape Aden to 

 Striking Sounding on the Malabar coaft (in the lat. 

 of 14*2' N.) 2 7 °3i / E. 



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