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for his suggestions respecting the necessity of avoiding this bank, and the precaution 
he recommends of not getting into its latitude during the night, at least till its extent 
is known, and its position more correctly determined. 
“ In the last place, M. d’Apres speaks of the voyage to India during the north¬ 
east monsoon; and this important article merits the utmost attention of navigators; 
particularly respecting a course which he explains, and by which seven or eight 
hundred leagues will be saved. For this abbreviated course, navigation is indebted 
to M. Grenier, who proposed and executed it in the King’s frigate, la Belle Poule. 
Having got up to the east, as far as the eighty-ninth degree of longitude, he crossed 
the line the twenty-eighth day aftg:his departure from the Isle of France. The ship 
the Castries, commanded by M. Winslow, which quitted the Isle of France in 
December, got in sight of Ceylon on the twenty-seventh day from its departure > 
and the ship the Bien-venu, commanded by M. Violette, followed the same track. 
6t M. d’Apres, who suffered no opportunity to pass of adding to the utility of 
his work, has concluded his instructions, of which we have given some account, 
with the translation of a memoir of Mr. Dalrymple, upon a Chart of the Chinese 
seas, which makes a part of the Oriental Neptune. The perusal of this memoir 
will inspire a confidence in the Chart. And we take this opportunity of observing, 
that all those who form charts, or correct them, will deceive themselves if they sup¬ 
pose, that judicious and experienced voyagers will have’ any confidence in them, 
if they are not supported, justified, and confirmed by concomitant memoirs. 
On the Archipelago to the North , and North-east of Madagascar . 
“ I have suppressed in the corrected Chart, the two banks of Nazareth, which do 
not exist, according to the tracks of several ships who have endeavoured to dis¬ 
cover them. The only bank they met with, is that which runs along to the north 
of the Isles of Corgados Garayos , and extends t.o the north, without presenting any 
danger, to 13 0 38' latitude. According to the journal of M. Daniel Savari, second in 
command of the private ship the Esperance, in returning from the Isle Zanzibar to 
the Isle of France, in 1775, they sounded the bank of Saya de MaLba y in the lati¬ 
tude of 9 0 26', and passed along it going to the southward till they arrived in 1 a 0 34/ 
latitude, where no bottom could be found; and, continuing the same course, they 
did not come to soundings on the bank, which runs along to the north of Corgados 
Garayos , till they got into 13 0 38'. 
