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this is the fame that Monlieur de Kerguelen called the Me 1776. 
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of Rendezvous *; but I know nothing that can rendezvous , ecem er ; 
at it, but fowls of the air; for it is certainly inacceftible to 
every other animal. 
At eleven o’clock the weather began to clear up, and we 
immediately tacked, and fleered in for the land. At noon, 
we had a pretty good obfervation, which enabled us to de¬ 
termine the latitude of Bligh’s Cap, which is the northern- 
moft illand, to be 48° 29' South, and its longitude 68° 40' 
Eaft t. We paffed it at three o’clock, handing to the South 
South Eaft, with a frefh gale at Weft. 
Soon after we faw the land, of which we had a faint view 
in the morning; and at four o’clock it extended from South 
Eaft k Eaft, to South Weft by South, diftant about four 
miles. The left extreme, which I judged to be the North¬ 
ern point of this land, called, in the French Chart of the 
* This ifle, or rock, was the fingle point about which Captain Cook had received the 
leaft information at Teneriffe; and we may obferve how fagacious he was in tracing 
it. What he could only fpeak of as probable , a comparifon of his Chart with that lately 
publifhed by Kerguelen, proves to be certain ; and if he had even read and copied what 
his predeceffor in the difcovery fays of it, he could fcarcely have varied his account of 
its ftiape. Kerguelen’s words are, cc Ifle de Reunion , qui n’eft qu’une Roche , nous fervoit 
“ de Rendezvous , ou de point de ralliement; & reflemble a rut coin de mire” 
f The French and Englifh agree very nearly (as might be expedled) in their accounts 
of the latitude of this illand; but the obfervations by which they fix its longitude, vary 
confiderably. 
The Pilot at Teneriffe made it only 64° 57' Eaft from Paris, which is about 
67° 1 U Eaft from London 5 or i° if more Wefterly than Captain Cook’s obferva¬ 
tions fix it. 
Monfieur de Pages fays it is 66° 47' Eaft from Paris, that is 69° h' Eaft from Lon¬ 
don, or twenty-fix miles more Eafterly than it is placed by Captain Cook. 
Kerguelen himfelf only fays that it is about 68° of Eaft longitude, par 68° de lon¬ 
gitude. 
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