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ceive, with my naked eye, an innumerable quantity 
of animalcules floating about alive, which enlight- 
ened that fmall body of water to an amazing degree. 
From thence I conclude that the whole mafs of water 
mult be filled with this fmall fifli fpawn or animal- 
cules, and that this is without all doubt the reafon of 
the water’s appearing fo white in the night-time. We 
run by the log, from the time we firft faw it till 
the latter part of the fecond night (the time we loft 
fight of it) about 170 miles. 
N. B. Latitude about 15 0 io' N. and S. W. dift. 
from Cape Aden 1 2° 1 8 7 E. 
On the 30th of Auguft 1769, at 3 o’clock in the 
morning, I faw a comet 8° 20' from Aldebaran 
S. W. and the tail ftreaming to the Weftward. 
I made the meridian diftance from Cape Aden to 
Striking Sounding on the Malabar coaft (in the lat. 
of i4 0 2'N.) 27°3 i / E. : ii ■ 
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