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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
observations of M. le Chevalier Grenier. As to the north side of the same bank, 
I have conformed myself to the following extract from a journal inserted in the 
English Pilot. 
* The northernmost part of Say a de Malha is in 9 0 55' south latitude, and in 
* 11 0 40' to the west of the meridian of Bombay. I fell in with the western part of 
6 the northern point, where I found, on the first sounding, fifteen fathom water, with 
6 a bottom of coral, and on the second, no more than eight; which made me stand 
s to the north, 3 0 west; and though the breeze was light, every time I threw out the 
6 line the soundings increased from twelve to fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-: 
* two, sixty, and eighty-five fathoms, and then I lost soundings. I returned to the 
* charge, and found as at first, fifteen fathom with a coral bottom, afterwards twelve, 
* then ten; but apprehensive that I should run aground, I stood to the north-north- 
* east, where I had eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, and twenty-two 
6 fathom ; and after having sailed about a mile and a half, I lost all sounding. It 
* is said that on the south, part of this shoal there are several banks, which in some 
{ places are dry and visible. The variation was 16 0 40' north-west.’ 
<f I have found no other memoir on the Island Roquepiz to the south, but the 
Journal of Lancaster, who saw it in 1602, and speaks highly of its appearance, 
without mentioning its longitude: it states merely that this Admiral having quitted 
the Bay of Antongil on jthe 6th of March, found himself in sight of Roquepiz on 
the 16th of the same month, towards io° 30' south. I have placed it in this latitude, 
and in 62° longitude, according to which position it could not have been seen 
either by the Cerf frigate, the gouelette the St. Benoit, or the Digue store-ship. 
“ In the memoirs which have been sent me from England, about five or six years 
ago, I have an extract from the journal of the two following ships, the Mary, Cap¬ 
tain Mitcham, and the Prince George, Captain Lewis; who left the point of Galles , 
in the island of Ceylon, on the 15th of June, 1755, to proceed on their voyage to 
Bombay, and saw, on the 2d of August, an island in 7® 7' south latitude, which they 
imagined to be that of Gratia, and reckoned to be 16° 56' to thewest of the meridian 
of the point of Galles , answering to 6o°49' our longitude; but according to 
a note inserted at the bottom of a small plan of it, which has been sent to me, it 
should be 20° 47/ west of Galles , and in 56° 58' of our longitude. 
u On the following day, having made an hundred and three miles to the north-west 
by north, these twQ ships struck on a reef, running off about five leagues to the south- 
