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AN

ACCOUNT

OF A

VOYAGE round the WORLD.

воок III.

CHAP. I.

The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay, on the Eaft Coaft of New Holland, now called New South Wales; various Incidents that happened there; with fome Account of the Country and its Inhabitants.

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1770. March.

March

Saturday 31.

AVING failed from Cape Farewell, which lies in latitude 40° 33′ S. longitude 186° W. on Saturday the 31st of March 1770, we steered westward, with a fresh gale at N. N. E. and at noon on the 2d of April, our latitude, by obfervation, was 40°, our longitude from Cape Farewell 2° 31′W. In the morning of the 9th, being in latitude 38° 29'S. we faw Monday 9. a tropic bird, which in so high a latitude is very uncommon.

April. Monday 2.

In the morning of the roth, being in latitude 38° 51′S. Tuesday 10. longitude 202° 43′ W. we found the variation, by the ampli

tude, to be 11° 25′ E. and by the azimuth 11° 20′.

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1770. April.

Wednef. 11.

Friday 13.

Sunday 15.

In the morning of the 11th, the variation was 13° 48′, which is two degrees and an half more than the day before, though I expected to have found it less.

In the course of the 13th, being in latitude 39° 23′ S. longitude 204° 2' W. I found the variation to be 12° 27′ E. and Saturday 14. in the morning of the 14th, it was 11o 30'; this day we also faw some flying fish. On the 15th, we faw an egg bird and a gannet, and as thefe are birds that never go far from the land, we continued to found all night, but had no ground Monday 16. with 130 fathom. At noon on the 16th, we were in latitude 39° 45'S. longitude 208° W. At about two o'clock the wind came about to the W. S. W. upon which we tacked and stood to the N. W.; foon after a small land-bird perched upon the rigging, but we had no ground with 120 fathom. At eight we wore and flood to the southward till twelve at night, and Tuesday 17. then wore and flood to the N. W. till four in the morning, when we again flood to the fouthward, having a fresh gale at W. S. W. with fqualls and dark weather till nine, when the weather became clear, and there being little wind, we had an opportunity to take feveral obfervations of the fun and moon, the mean refult of which gave 207° 56′ W. longitude: our latitude at noon was 39° 36'S. We had now a hard gale from the fouthward, and a great fea from the fame quarter, which obliged us to run under our fore-fail and mizen all night, during which we founded every two hours, but had no ground with 120 fathom.

Wednef. 18.

In the morning of the 18th, we faw two Port Egmont hens, and a pintado bird, which are certain figns of approaching land, and indeed by our reckoning we could not be far from it, for our longitude was now one degree to the weftward of the caft fide of Van Diemen's land, according to

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