Va^tuefor cuttings^ hmcmfs^ &c. the part affcfted being an- 
ointed therewith. One thing more he related j not to be omit- 
tedj which isj that having told^ that the time of catching thefe 
Fifties was from the beginning of March^ to the end oiMay^ af- 
ter which time they appeared no more in that part of the Sea i 
hedidj when alked^ whither they then retired, give this Aofwef ^ 
That it was thought^ they went into the Weed-beds of the Gulf 
of Florida^ it having been obfervedj that upon their Fins and 
Tails they haveftoreof Clams or BarnacleSj upon which^he faid, 
Rock-weedj or Sea-tangle did grow a hand long 5 many of them 
having been taken of them^ of the bignefs of great Oyfter-ftiellSj 
and hung upon the Governour of Bermudas his Pales. 
A Narrative concerning the fuccefi of Pendulum-Watches 
TheR.elation lately made hyM^ipr Holmes^ concerniog the 
fuccels of the Pendulum-Watches at Sea ( two wheieof were 
committed to his Care aod Obferyation in his laft voyage to 
Gumj by fome of our Emjment Virtuoji^ and Grand Promotors 
of Navigation) is as folio we th ^ 
The faid Majorhdiwmg left that Coaft^and^being come to the 
Ifle of St,Thomas under the li^/e^accompanied with four Veftels^ 
having there ad jufted hisWatches^ putto Seagjsnd failed Weft- 
wardg feven or eight hundred Leagues^ 'without changing his 
courfe 3 after whichj finding the V/ind favourablcj he iieered 
towards the Co^lloi Jfrk\^ North-North-Eaft. But having 
failed upon that Lme a matter of two or three hundred Leagues^ 
theMafters of the other ShipSj under hisCondufl:^ apprehend- 
ing that they ftiould want Waterj before they could reach that 
Coaft^did propofe to him to ftcer their Courfe to the Barhadoes^ 
to fupply themfelves with Water there. Whereupon the faid 
Ma jorj having called the Maftersand Pilots togetherjand caufed 
them to produce their Journals and CalculationSj it was founds 
that thofe Pilots did differ in their reckonings from that of the 
Major^one of them eighty Leagues, anorfier about an hundred, 
and the third^more^ but the Major judging by his Pendul- 
Watches^ that they were onely fome thirty Leagues diftant from 
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