PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
29 
Nov. 
182o. 
posed on this subject wiU find it ably treated by the late Captain CHAP. 
Duiney, K. N., in his account of the Buccaneers. II- 
Without entering into a question which presents so many diffi- 
cu ties, I shall merely observe, that, considering the rapid current 
t lat exists in the vicinity of the Galapagos, and extends, though 
with diminished force, throughout the trade wind, the error in 
JJavis's reckoning is not more than might have happened to any 
dull sailing vesse circumstanced as his was. To substantiate this, I 
shall advert to three instances out of many others which might be 
named. In a short run from Juan Ternande. to Easter Island, 
Mirons, who was with Eoggewein, was drifted 318 geographica 
mitL ovt'thT The Blossom, in 
short space of e' T!"** »f 270 miles in the 
Sanl iVh n * r Ws arrival at the 
wav fo 1 teoehing at Easter Island on his 
y, found a similar error of 300 miles in the course of that passage. 
ml to^riT "“*"8 fro™ g1- 
Eim than the 
erim “”^<1““% >>“t reasonable to allow him a greater 
Strn ' ' u ar y as the first part of his route was through a much 
St onger current. But taking the error in the Blossom's reckoning as 
will'H™*’ ‘*1’P^5'‘‘’S >t to the distance given by Wafer, there 
plion ' Ti for between it and the real 
led to the ‘''® foregoing considerations, 
annear to which reckonings were formerly kept, does not 
those causes. ° reasonably be ascribed to 
1 I’erouse was of opinion that the islands of Felix and Am 
brose were those under discussion, and in order to reconcile thek 
^stance from Lop.apo with that given by Wafer, he has imnuten^ 
him the mistake of a figure in his text, without eonsiderinv that k 
would have been next to impossible for Davis to have pursued^a direct 
course from the Galapagos to those islands, (especially at the season in 
which his voyage was made), but on the contrary that he wo 1 1 i 
compelled to make a circuit which would have brought him much" 
I nearer 
