Garden Prison.'] 
TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
4 IT 
Madame D’Arifat at Wilhems Plains ; which being at some distance 
from the sea, seemed least liable to objection. On the 19th, a polite 
note from colonel Monistrol said that my request was granted ; and 
he sent word next day, that I was at liberty to quit the Garden Prison, 
and pass two or three days in town previously to going into the 
country ; and being importuned by my friend Pitot to spend the 
evening with him, immediate advantage was taken of the permission. 
On taking leave of the old serjeant, who had behaved kindly 
to all the prisoners, and finding myself without side the iron gate, 
I felt that even a prison one has long inhabited is not quitted with- 
out some sentiment of regret, unless it be to receive liberty. Of 
the twenty months which my detention had now reached, more than 
sixteen had been passed in the Garden Prison, sometimes rather 
lightly, but the greater part in bitterness ; and my strength and 
appearance were so changed, that I felt to be scarcely recognisable 
for the same person who had supported so much fatigue in exploring 
the coasts of Terra Australis. 
Various observations had been taken in the Garden Prison, 
both by Mr. Aken and myself, principally for our amusement and 
to exercise Messrs. Dale and Seymour in the calculations. The 
corrected results of my observations were as follow : 
Latitude from eight meridian altitudes of the 
sun, taken with a sextant and artificial 
horizon, - - - - 20° 9' 13", 5 S. 
Longitude from twenty-seven sets of lunar 
distances, the particulars of which are 
given in Table IX. of the first Appendix to 
this volume, - - 57 30 42 E. 
Variation of the theodolite from azimuths 
a. m. and p.m. - - - n 42 30 W. 
The middle of the town being nearly one mile south-west from the 
prison, its situation should be, 
Port Louis, latitude 20° 9' 56" south 
longitude 57 29 57 east. 
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1805. 
August. 
