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( 4 l8 ) 
under a double reef’d Main-fail,' great Part of the 
lime, and drove to the YVeftward, without the Be- 
nefit of celellial Obfervations •, yet all the While the 
Marine-Surveyor ftruck the Miles of our Drift , 
which are to be feen upon our Journals for every 
Hour- and fo far did l depend on it, that I did not 
order the Log to be unce hove. . 
“ After the bad Weather, the Wind chang’d witli 
the new Moon, to N. N. E, and N. E. with a brisk 
Gale, which gave us a fair Run for five Days, near 
50 Leagues every 24 Hours. We had daily Obfer- 
vations, and our Courfe was near South. Here it 
was, that I found the one feventh of the Ship’s Di- 
flance was to be deduced from the whole, and that 
ir was for Yaws and Sheers ., which the Marine Sur- 
veyor marks exactly. After this Allowance was- 
made, fo well did my Reckoning agree with my 
Obfervation, that when there was 2 or 3 Miles dif- 
ference, I rather imputed it to the Want of Exad- 
nefs in my obferving, or a Fault in the Quadrant, 
than to the Marine- Surveyor^ in regard my Mate- 
alfo found it to agree to a furprizing Exadnefs. 
“ Three Weeks after our Departure, I had the 
Misfortune to lofe the Fork of the Machine, and 
therefore was afterwards without the Help of the 
Surveyor , till our Arrival at Toulon j which Place 
being one of the chief Nurferies for Navigators 
that ferve the French King, I was the more con- 
cerned for my Lofs^ but I in fome meafure repaired 
it, by ordering a Smith to make two fuch Forks, of 
nearly the fame Dimenfions and Turns in the Fins, 
as I could remember the other had, which ferv’d 
there fo well, as to gain the Admiration of all who 
faw me try it. My Merchant was fo taken with it, 
that he defir’d me to (hew it to a Friend of his, a 
“ noted 
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