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on the 16th, being then in the latitude of 48° 45', and in the 1 776. 
longitude of 52 0 Eaft, we faw penguins and divers, and , Dec _ embe ^ f 
rock- weed floating in the fea. We continued to meet with Monday X 6. 
more or lefs of thefe every day, as we proceeded to the Eaft- 
ward ; and on the 21ft, in the latitude of 48° 27' South, and Saturday 2 j. 
in the longitude of 65° Eaft, a very large feal was feen. 
We had now much foggy weather, and, as we expedled to 
fall in with the land every hour, our navigation became 
both tedious and dangerous. 
At length, on the 24th, at fix o’clock in the morning, as Tuefday 24. 
we were fleering to the Eaftward, the fog clearing away a 
little, we faw land *, bearing South South Eaft, which, 
upon 
fuch as mark the operations of the firft French voyage ; and even for thefe, he was in¬ 
debted to a MS. drawing. 
But this veil of unneceflary fecrecy is at length drawn afide. Kerguelen himfelf has, 
very lately, publilhed the Journal of his proceedings in two fucceffive voyages, in the 
years 1772 and 1773 ; and has annexed to his Narrative a Chart of the coafts of this 
land, as far as he had explored them in both voyages. Monfieur de Pages, alfo, much 
about the fame time, favoured us with another account of the fecond voyage, in fome re- 
fpects fuller than Kerguelen’s own, on board whofe fhip he was then an officer. 
From thefe fources of authentic information, we are enabled to draw every neceffary 
material to corredt what is erroneous, and to illuftrate what, otherwife, would have re¬ 
mained obfcure, in this part of Captain Cook’s Journal. We lhall take occafion to do 
this in feparate Notes on the paffages as they occur, and conclude this tedious, but, it is 
hoped, not unneceffary, detail of fadts, with one general remark, fully expreffive of the 
difadvantages our Author laboured under. He never faw that part of the coaft upon 
which the f rench had been in 1772 ; and he never knew that they had been upon ano¬ 
ther part of it in 1773, which was the very fcene of his own operations. Confequently, 
what he knew of the former voyage, as delineated upon Crozet’s Chart, only ferved to 
perplex and miflead his judgment; and his total ignorance of the latter , put it out of his 
power to compare his own obfervations with thofe then made by Kerguelen ; though we, 
who are better inftrudted, can do this, by tracing the plained: marks of coincidence and 
agreement. 
" Captain Cook was not the original difcoverer of thele frnall iflands which he now 
fell in with. It is certain that they had been feen and named by Kerguelen, on his fecond 
voyage, in December 1773 * Their pofition, relatively to each other, and to the adjoin- 
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