( 4*7 ) 
“ fifty Pifioks for it, and might have had more, would 
tc I have parted with it ; but 1 value the worthy Do- 
46 nor of it too much, to do any fuch Thing. 
P. S. “ When I (aid my Courfe from the Lands - 
“ End to UJhant was S. b E. it muff be underfiood 
“ that I did not go on the Outfide, but pafs’d within, 
«'* between VJhant and the Main : For in the other 
“ Cafe, to pafs to the Weftward, the Courfe had been 
“ about S. b W. to go clear of all. 
The fecond Letter, which I receiv’d from Captain. 
Thoumes, in relation to my Infirument, was dated at 
Gnernfey the 2d of September 1725*, and what follows 
is the Subftance of it, fo far as it relates to the Ma- 
rine-Surveyor , viz. 
“ I am now fully confirm’d of the Ufefulnefs of 
“ your Marine -Survey or, having tried it, this laffc 
“ Voyage to Marfeilles and Toulon , fufficiently to 
« perfuade me, that it is greatly preferable to the Log. 
tC Having in two former Voyages in the Bay of 
« Bifcay been apprized, that the Ship’s Diflance fail’d, 
“ as obtain’d by the Marine -Survey or, was really true, 
“ yet I was oblig’d every 24 Hours to fhorten the 
“ Difiance by a certain Proportion, that I guefi to be 
“ near one feventh Part of the Whole ^ which, from 
C£ the Bearings of Headlands, &c. I found confiantly 
“ fo. However, to be better fatisfied of this Allow- 
* 
cc ance, 1 wanted a long Run, near, or upon a Meri- 
<c dian, with good Obfervations, which could not be 
« had in the Bay or our Channels j therefore, when 
“ I fail’d for the Mediterranean , which was in January 
“ laft, 1 continued to make the fame Allowance, and 
« caution’d my] Mate to make it alfo. It happen’d, 
“ that for the firfi eight Days, we had hard Gales of 
“ foutherly Winds, attended with violent Squalls of 
“ Rain, and a difira&cd Sea, infomuch that we try’d 
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