SURVEY'S AND DISCOVERIES. 
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of the general chart of researches which accom¬ 
panies this volume. 
The southernmost land hitherto seen, lying 
three or four leagues, S by E., true, from Home’s 
Foreland, was taken to be Bontekoe Island, a 
place laid down in some charts, though not with¬ 
in fifteen miles of the same latitude. It is high, 
precipitous land, and of a particularly dark ap¬ 
pearance. Its longitude I found to be 20° 40' W., 
instead of 7° 5' W., the position given to it in the 
charts for the whale-fisheries 
About half a degree of longitude to the west¬ 
ward of Bontekoe Island, is a remarkable head¬ 
land, which is probably the same that was disco¬ 
vered by Henry Hudson, in the year 1607, and 
named by him Hold-with-Hope. From thence 
the land trends more to the westward. 
In the midst of my operations for the survey 
of this coast, it fortunately happened, that the 
moon, at a convenient distance from the sun, for 
determining the longitude, became visible. This 
was a circumstance of great importance to me, 
and was instantly embraced, for correcting the 
rate of my chronometer; it being impossible alto¬ 
gether to depend on the going of. a single time¬ 
piece. The weather was uncommonly favourable, 
so as to enable me to take the distances with the 
greatest precision. From six sets of distances 
