kkrguelen’s voyage to the north. 736 fails and rigging. By the exertions of thefe officers, whofe talents cannot be too highly praifed, my frigate was entirely equipped in four days, with fix months provifion on board. She fell down to the road-ftead on the eleventh of April, where I anchored in. 4fen fathoms water, with bottom of mud and fand, mooring her E. S. E. and W. N. W. with a heavy anchor. Being moored, I fet Point Porzic at W. quarter S. W. five de- grees f , and Round Ifland at S. quarter S. E. four degrees E. This is the belt anchor- age in,the road ; it is called LaFoffe, on account of the bottom rifing from the middle j but as it is at fome little diftance from the port, it is moftly frequented by large veffels. Nothing interefting occurred to me in the road till the twenty-firft, when I experi- enced a heavy gale of wind from the S. S. W. During my flay there I exercifed the flip’s company in the rigging, and at the great guns. M. Duchaftei made out the roll for the watch, and engaging : that for engaging was made after a manner which ought to be generally adopted : it diftributed, for example, to the ftarboard watch the uneven guns, one, three, five, feven, and to the larboard watch the even ones, two, four, fix, eight. By this means a veffel can never be taken by furprife ; for the watch on duty on the deck may by night and day ferve half the guns: fhe may prepare on a fudden as well to fire from both fides, on giving the word ftarboard to the ftarboard, and larboard to the larboard fide. To conclude, the watch may exercife at the guns, without waking thofe who have turned in. first part. Containing the Courfe from Brejl to Iceland. I received my inftruttions from court the twenty-fixth of April 1767, and the next day, the twenty-feventh, I left Rreft roads at nine in the morning, at the beginning of flood tide, and with a very weak N.E. wind; as I got off the land it became ftronger: at five in the evening we made Ufliant, bearing E.N. E. five leagues and a half diftant. I fleered all night W. N. W. to make an offing, and feeing by the weather that the eaft- erly winds were likely to continue, I kept the point ahead at N. N. W., in order to reach Cape Clear. The twenty-eighth, at noon, I was by obfervation in lat. 48° 46', and long. 1 o° f W. from Paris. At fun-fet I noticed the variation of the compals to be 200 towards the W. The twenty-ninth, at half paft eight in the morning, after hav- ing run forty-five leagues by the log in the preceding day, I difcovered Cape Clear. At ten o’clock, Miflin-head bearing N. N. E. five leagues diftant, I founded and found fixty-five fathoms water, the bottom a muddy fand mixed with pebbles. Afterwards I fleered N. W. quarter W. On the twenty-ninth, at noon, I found the lat. 510 5', and long. 12® 24'W. M. Boutanguoy, my firft pilot, obferved 21° of variation in the morning. I remarked that Mitfen-head was abetter land to make for than Cape Clear, on account of its being higher, and more eafy to perceive. I took notice of the Schyl- lings iflands, which I found badly laid down in the map of M. Beilin, naval engineer, engraved in 1751. Thefe iflands ftretch more to the W. and W. S. W. than they are defcribed -to do in that chart. On running from Cape- Clear to the Schyllings, I noticed a fenfible current to the N. E. After doubling thefe iflands, I kept the Cape at S. S. E. On the thirtieth, at noon, I obferved the polar height was 520 44', and by calculation 14° 54' W. longitude from Paris. At noon I fleered N. N. E., the wind S. E., but light, and a finefea. On the firft of May I was by reckoning in lat. 530 18', and I found it by obfervation 33' 3°', which gave a difference in twenty-four hours of twelve minut:sj this could not

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