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A VOYAGE TO 
1776. naval department flop here. They were equally folicitous 
jTO _ _j . to afford us every afliftance towards rendering our voyage 
of public utility. Accordingly, we received on board, next 
Tuefdayn. day, feveral aftronomical and nautical inftruments, which 
the Board of Longitude intrufted to me, and to Mr. King, 
my fecond Lieutenant; we having engaged to that Board to 
make all the neceffary obfervations, during the voyage, for 
the improvement of aftronomy and navigation; and, by our 
joint labours, to fupply the place of a profeffed obfervator. 
Such a perfon had been originally intended to be fent out in 
my fhip. 
The Board, likewife, put into our poffeflion the fame 
watch, or time-keeper, which I had carried out in my laft 
voyage, and had performed its part fo well. It was a copy 
of Mr. Harrifon’s, conftrufted by Mr. Kendall. This day, at 
noon, it was found to be too flow for mean time at Green¬ 
wich, by 3' 3i // , 89; and by its rate of going, it loft, on 
mean time, i", 209 per day. 
Another time-keeper, and the fame number and fort of 
inftruments for making obfervations, were put on board the 
Difcovery, under the care of Mr. William Bayly-; who, 
having already given fatisfadtory proofs of his fkill and di¬ 
ligence as an obfervator, while employed in Captain Fur- 
neaux’s fhip, during the late voyage, was engaged a fecond 
time, in that capacity, to embark with Captain Clerke. 
Mr. Anderfon, my furgeon, who, to fkill in his immediate 
profeftion, added great proficiency in natural hiftory, was 
as willing as he was well qualified, to defcribe every thing 
in that branch of fcience which fhould occur worthy of no¬ 
tice. As he had already vifited the South Sea iflands in the 
fame fhip, and been of fingular fervice, by enabling me to 
enrich my relation of that voyage with Various ufeful re- 
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