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been previously twice carried out Iby Captain 
Cook, in his voyages of discovery. 
In 1776, when the Resolution was in the course 
of equipment for her voyage, " the Board of 
Longitude put into the possession of Captain 
Cook, and Mr. King, his second lieutenant, the 
time-keeper which Captain Cook had carried 
out in his last voyage, and which had performed 
so well. It was constructed by Mr. Kendall, and 
was a copy of Mr. Harrison's."* 
This time-keeper was taken out again by 
Captain Bligh in 1787 ; and, after the mutiny on 
board the Bounty, was carried by the mutineers 
to Pitcairn's Island. According to Mayhew 
Folger's statement, it was in the possession of 
the governor of Juan Fernandez in 1808. It 
was afterwards sold in Chili ; and subsequently 
came into the possession of Alexander Cald- 
cleuch, Esq. of Valparaiso, of whom Sir Thomas 
Herbert purchased it in 1840, for fifty guineas, 
That officer, who then commanded the Calliope, 
had the instrument repaired at Valparaiso, took 
it with him to China, and in 1843 brought it 
home in the Blenheim. It was exhibited at the 
Eoyal Institution, Albemarle- street, in 1844. 
It is six inches in diameter, with three dials 
on its face ; one for hours, one for minutes, and 
one for seconds; with a massive outer silver 
case, made as the outer cases of pocket watches 
were eighty or ninety years since ; so that its 
appearance is that of a gigantic watch. It 
has " Larcum Kendall, London," inscribed on 
vol. 
* " Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1766/ 
>1. i. p. 3. Ed. 1784. 
