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A VOYAGE TO 



Book I 



The author'' s JOURNAL, en board the 



I N C E N D I O. 



HAVING fet fail on the fame day, namely, the 

 28th of May, 1735, and fleered S. between 52 

 and 56 deg. wefterly, we perceived, on June 2, about 

 fix in the evening, the ifland of Savages, one of the 

 Canaries ; and on the 3d we faw Teneriffe. I found the 

 difference of longitude between Cadiz and Naga-point 

 to be 11° 6\ which agrees with the Englilh and Dutch 

 charts, but differs a little from the true longitude de- 

 termined by father Feuiilee at Loratava, in the fame 

 ifland of Teneriffe. 



On the 4th, we had flght of the iflands of Pahna, 

 Gomera, and Fer; but again loft fight of them on the 

 5th. On the 29th, about noon, we made Martinico, 

 and continuing our courfe, paffed between that ifland 

 and Dominica. The difference of longitude between 

 Martinico and Cadiz bay, according to my reckoning, 

 was 57'' 5', one degree more than San Telmo's chart 

 makes it. But it is proper to obferve, that, in order 

 to eilimate my courfe, and avoid the danger of find- 

 ing a great difference at making land, I followed two 

 different calculations, one according to the meafures 

 commonly given by pilots to the diftance between the 

 knots on the log- line, of 47 Englifli feet and a half, 

 and the other by reducing them to 47 royal feet ; for 

 though, in ftridnefs, it ought to have been 477 of the 

 latter, the difference being but fmall, I thought it beft 

 to omit the half foot, that my reckoning might be be- 

 fore the fliip. According to the firft method, the dif- 

 ference of longitude between Cadiz and this ifland 

 V7as between 60 and 61 degrees, which nearly agrees 

 with the Journal of Don George. 



From Martinico we continued our courfe towards 

 ' Curafao, which we had fight of July 3d. The differ- 

 ence 



