THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 
With a ftrong gale at South, on the 19th, we flood to 1776. 
the weftward, till eight o’clock in the morning; when, , ^ ly ' 
the wind fhifting to the Weft and North Weft, we tacked Friday 19. 
and ftretched to the Southward. At this time, we faw 
nine fail of large fhips, which we judged to be French 
men of war. They took no particular notice of us, nor we 
of them. 
At ten o’clock in the morning of the 22d, we faw Cape Monday 22* 
Ortegal; which at noon bore South Eaft, half South, about 
four leagues diftant. At this time we were in the latitude 
of 44 0 6 7 North; and our longitude, by the watch, was 
8° 23 x Weft. 
After two days of calm weather we paffed Cape Finif- 
terre, on the afternoon of the 24th, with a fine gale at Wednef. 24. 
North North Eaft. The longitude of this Cape, by the 
watch, is 9 0 29 7 Weft; and, by the mean of forty-one lunar 
obfervations, made before and after we paffed it, and re¬ 
duced to it by the watch, the refult was g° 19" 12 77 . 
On the 30th, at fix minutes and thirty-eight feconds paft Tuefday 39* 
ten o’clock at night, apparent time, I obferved, with a 
night telefcope, the moon totally eclipfed. By the epbeme - 
rft, the fame happened at Greenwich at nine minutes 
paft eleven o’clock; the difference being one hour, two 
minutes, and twenty-two feconds, or 15 0 35' 30" of longi¬ 
tude. The watch, for the fame time, gave 15 0 2b 7 45" lon¬ 
gitude Weft; and the latitude was 31 0 io 7 North. No other 
obfervation could he made on this eclipfe, as the moon was 
hid behind the clouds the greater part of the time; and, 
in particular, when the beginning and end of total dark- 
nefs, and the end of the eclipfe, happened. 
Finding that we had not hay-and corn fufhcient for the 
fubfiftence of the flock of animals on board, till our arrival 
at 
