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course, from which we a little deviated, in order to meet witBf 

 her. 



The wind row corp'^ig awry from the SW. quarter, forwarded 

 us so much J that, on the 11 J u at noon, we were come to N. 

 Idt. ^I^'sj ^"^5 ^* long. iiO^, wh?n they began to blow iVom 

 the northward ; and, ia the night of the s9th, after we had been 

 becalmed almost the whole oT the day, they sprang up Iroxn the 

 E. and so conthiued till the '23d. We then stood to the north- 

 ward, and came into lat. 34|^, ard long. 29° 40'. -After some 

 hours of ca]m, w^e had the wind fi'om the SE. quartef ; which, 

 on the 24th, changed to the SW. when we again stood for the 

 N. This day we Lompared thiiteen series of distances of the 

 sun and moon obser^^ecl in this quavter of the moon, the medium 

 of which gave our longitude CO' more the e?stwavci of the time- 

 piece, with which diBerence w^e corrected the account kept by 

 it. It appeared f:^om tbei^e results, that No. 71 of Arnold had 

 very accurately pointed out the course we made good, and the 

 daily errors of our recLoning. 



In taking these obs? rvations of the distances between the sun 

 and the moon, we made use of the circular instrument, or circle 

 of repetition, of the Chevalier Borua, which proved to be ex- 

 cellent in its kind, and whose properties a*-e so well pointed 

 out by M. Jacinto Magellan (Magallanes), in one of the Me- 

 moires he has published on the use of astronomical instruments, 

 (Paris, 4to. 1775 ;) who, in the same work, mentions his 

 reasons for believing that he had employed similar instruments 

 a considerable time before he had heard any thing of the expe- 

 riments of that astronomer. 



At 9 P.M. being then in N. lat. 37^ ^V, we ran to the E. in 

 order to keep clear of the Vigia, which, although it is laid 

 down by M. Verdun de la Crenne, in his chart of these seas, in 

 latitude 38^ 13', he says also, that perhaps it ought lo be placed 

 in 37^ SO'; in which latitude he has laid it dowi) a second time. 

 Had we trusted to our reckoning, we would not have taken this 

 course, which would afterwards have prevented us from passing 

 to the westward of the Azores with the winds which generally 

 blow from W. to NW.; but, according to our observations for 

 determining the longitude, in which we placed greater confi- 

 dence than in our reckoning, we were still four degrees to the 

 W. of those islands. 



The pilot of the ship Buen Consejo, on his return from L^ma, 

 bad some conversation at Fayal, in the island of Fiores, one of 

 tlie Azores, with a Portuguese pilot of that island, who gave 

 Lim the following information: viz. The Vigia lies WbW. 

 from the island Fiores 66y leagues. An English vessel from 



