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Departure from the Bay] 



AFTER having refitted and vidualM, we failM in 

 Company with our former Comrades, on Monday, 

 the 7th of May. Being at Noon two Leagues and a half Ernr \ B 

 to the Southward of Cape S. Anthony^ I found by Obfer- Chm^ 

 vation 13 Degrees of Latitude, whence I concluded, that it 

 lies in 1 2 Degrees 50 Minutes, and the City in 12 De- 

 grees 45 Minutes, and according to the Obfervation of 

 OUnda, fet down in La Cqnnoijfance des Tempr,o£ 171 2, k 

 fliould be in 41 Degrees 30 Minutes of Weft Longitude, 

 or Difference of the Meridian from Paris, which differs 

 from the Pofition, the Duich Charts alfign it 6 Degrees 

 more Weftward ; for inftead of 336 Degrees ?o Minutes, 

 It is 343 Degrees from the Meridian ofTeneriff. 



On the 1 8th, Beauvais Grant came to ask our Point, 

 perhaps not fo much to afcertain his own, as to make a 

 Signal to the others for them to crowd more Sail the next 

 Day 3 and leave us. In Jhort, they did not fail of fo doing yj 

 they bore up to make the more way, knowing that it 

 concerned us more than them to gain Ground to the Eaft- 

 ward. They fucceeded, and we loft Sight of them before 

 Night, without endeavouring to bear up with them, and 

 keep fuch Company as the Advice of the Peace had ten* 

 der'd ufelefs, and their Infidelity odious. 



From the time of our putting into the Bay till we came Currents, 

 to the Line, we had almoft continual cloudy Weather, 

 with Gufts of Wind and Rain, Calms, and little Wind, 

 the Winds blowing from S. S. E. to E. S. E. and tho' the 

 Current fets to the Northward near the Coaft, out at Sea 

 we found it rather fet us a little to the Southward ; but 

 when we were once come into^ 4 Degrees of North Lati- 

 tude, we found a very great Difference in our Reckoning 

 on that fide ; we attributed it to the General Current, 

 fetting N* W. which prevails in that Latitude along the 

 Coaft of Brafil and Guiana. 



