Vertuefor cuttings, lamenefs, &c. the part affe&ed being an- 
ointed therewith. One thing more ho related, not to be omit- 
ted, which is, that having told, that the time of catching thele 
Fifties was from the beginning of March, to the end of May 3 af- 
ter which time they appeared no more in that part of the Sea : 
he did 3 when alked, whither they then retired, give this Anfwer, 
That it was thought 3 they went into the Weed-beds of the Gulf 
of Florida 3 it having been obferved, that upon their Fins and 
Tails they have ftore of Clams or Barnacles, upon which, he faid. 
Rock- weed, or Sea-tangle did grow a hand long 3 many of them 
having been taken of them, of the bignefs of great Oyfter-fhells, 
and hung upon the Governour of Bermudas his Pales. 
A Narrative concerning the fuccefi of Pendulum-Watches 
at Sea for the Longitudes. \ 
The Relation lately made by Major Holmes 3 concerning the 
fuccels of the Tendulum-Watches at Sea ( two whereof were 
committed to his Care and Oblervation in his laft voyage to 
Cuiny by fome of our Emiment Virtuosi, and Grand Promotors 
of Navigation) is as followeth 3 
The faid Major having left that Coaft,and, being come to the 
Ifle of St .Thomas under the Line, accompanied with four Veftels, 
having there ad jufted his Watches, put to Sea, and failed Weft- 
ward, feven or eight hundred Leagues, without changing his 
eourfe 5 after which, finding the Wind favourable, he fteered 
towards the Coaft of Africk^, North-North-Eaft. But having 
failed upon that Line a matter of two or three hundred Leagues, 
the Mafters of the other Ships, under hisCondutft, apprehend- 
ing that they ftiould want Water, before they could reach that 
Coaft, did propole to him to fteer their Courle to the Barbadoes , 
to fupply themfelves with Water there. Whereupon the faid 
Major, having called the Mafters and Pilots together, and caufed 
them to produce their Journals and Calculations, it was found, 
that thole Pilots did difter in their reckonings from that of the 
Major, one of them eighty Leagues, another about an hundred, 
and the third,more 3 but the Major judging by his Pendul- 
Watches , that they were onel^ feme thirty Leagues diftant from 
