372 A VOYAGE TO EookIX. 



ah^ at five in the evening Cape Ortegal, bearing: 

 S. S. E. diftance feven leagues. 

 ' Don George Juan, by his reckoning, concluded 

 the difference of longitude between Cape Francois and 

 Cape Prior to be 59^ 30' which is however confide- 

 rably different from the real longitude : but this I at- 

 tribute to the ftrong tendency of the currents eaftward 

 at the mouth of the Caycos channel. 

 ' When the weather permrtted, he continued the 

 ©bfervations of the variation of the needle and tak- 

 hig his meridian from the point of departure, which 

 v/as Cape Francois, they proved as follows : 



Latitude. 



D. M. 



30 00 



' 29 GO 

 29 00 



33 00 

 36 22 



40 00 



Longitude from 

 Cape Francois^. 



D. M. 



2 o© 



6 40 



9 15 

 I I 40 

 18 30 



26 00 



Variation&r 



D. M. 



t 30 E. 

 I 00 



0 00 



1 3 0 W. 

 7 00 



I I 00 



On making Cape Ortegal, the courle was altered 

 to N.N.E. and on the 31ft, at feven in the morning, 

 the fquadron had again fight of land, which proved 

 that of Brefl-bay and at three in the afternoon, the 

 whole fleet came to an anchor in that harbour. 



Don George Juan being thus landed in France, 

 embraced with pleafure this opportunity of paying his 

 refpeds to fo iliufl:rious a body as the royal academy 

 of fciences at the fame time communicating feveral 

 particulars relating to cur operations in Peru ; toge- 

 ther with fome oblervations concerning the aberration 

 of light, and its effefb on the fixed liars, according 

 to his own accurate obfervations in the province of 

 I'^iito. And that celebrated body were, pleafed to 

 jexprefs their elleem of his application and knowledge, 



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