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made faft to the canoe, and in that manner 

 towed to the Ifland of Providence* On 

 this rock thefe people continued three 

 months, employed in conftrudiug a flaal- 

 lop, twenty-five feet in length, in which 

 they had at length the good fortune to reach 

 Madagafcar without any accident. The 

 latitude of the Ifle of Providence was ob- 

 ferved to be nine degrees five minutes fouth. 

 Its longitude is reckoned to be forty- nine j 

 and it is fuppofed that it lies N, N. W. fome 

 degrees well from the Ifle of France. 



M. Moreau» captain of a fraall veflcl 

 called ie Favori, being difpatched from the 

 Ifle of France, on the gth of February 1 757, 

 forNarfapoor, fell in, on die 2 6th of March 

 the fame year, with the Adu iflanda. 

 His obferved latitude there was 5° 6'S* and 

 bis longitude, by eftimation, 66^ E. from the 

 meridian of Paris. Having ordered fome 

 of his people to go on fbore in a canoe* he 



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