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brought forward to the noon of July the 5th made 
75 ° 4 S' an ^ 74 ° 39 ' • Taking, the medium of the 
whole five fetts I made the longitude of the fhip at 
noon 75 0 8' 48" eaft of London. Subtracting from 
thence the diff erence of longitude, the bearings and 
diftance of the ifland gave = 8' 37" weft, I made 
the longitude of St. Paul’s 75 0 o' u" eaft of Lon- 
don, and 58° o' 11" from the Cape of Good Hope. 
By my account kept from an obfervation taken June 
the 1 8th, I made it73°3 5' eaft of London, and 
5 6° 35' from the Cape, which differs i° 25' from 
what I make the true longitude : moft of the ac- 
counts on board were between two -and three degrees 
to the weftward of mine. The longitude of this 
ifland having never been determined by any other 
method than the runs of fhips to the Cape, there 
are hardly any two charts or books that lay it down 
alike, they differing from 71 0 to 74 0 in their ac- 
counts, which made me put little dependance upon 
any of them. 
On our arrival at Bencoolen I took three obferva- 
tion s of the diftance of the Moon from the Sun, in 
the road, by which I made Fort Marlborough to lie 
in 103° 50' 45" eaft of London. 
I was on fhore five or fix days in hopes of getting 
fome obfervations of Jupiter’s Satellites, but was dis- 
appointed by the cloudinefs of the nights ; fo that I 
got nothing for my pains but a fever, which had nigh 
coft me my life, terminating at laft in an intermiting 
one, which has continued with me ever fince, nei- 
ther does it feem to have any inclination to leave me 
at prefen t. 
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