. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. .•11 ROUND THE WORLD. I37 « we iaw many more birds than ufual, efpecially a " great quantity of entirely white pigeons, like " thofe of the coafts of Patagonia, and alfo many " whales; from all thefe remarks we thought, that ** we might be upon a bank. In confequence we " founded, but without finding any bottom ; we
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. .•11 ROUND THE WORLD. I37 « we iaw many more birds than ufual, efpecially a " great quantity of entirely white pigeons, like " thofe of the coafts of Patagonia, and alfo many " whales; from all thefe remarks we thought, that ** we might be upon a bank. In confequence we " founded, but without finding any bottom ; we " were then out of fight of land; latitude by ac" *' count ^^"^ 28', longitude 49° 40' weft.'* After that day M. Duclos Guyot never faw the new land more, to which he gave the name of JJI^ Be Saint Pierre. On his landing at St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verd Iflands, he difcovered (as he had imagined, by the variation of the compafs, which he had found to be 13°! and 13 degrees, inftead of 19, that which ought to have been expeded by the lon- gitude he reckoned himlelf in when in fight of the Ifland of St, Pierre) that the currents, after he had doubled Cape Horn, had carried him 10* 56' eaftward of his reckoning. ** Confequently (fays M. Duclos Guyot) the pofition of the land, that we difcovered the 29th of June, may be deter- mined ; being ten leagues tc» the fouthward, when we had the beft fight of it, (the 30th) our " latitude by obfervation was 54" 50', and our " longitude by reckoning 51° yi ; De-j- dueling the jo° 56' which the vcilol was driven eaftward, there remains for the loiigitude of the ifland 40'' 36' weft of Paris, which M. Duclos Guyot (( (( (( (C ). .., »*l. ! *' *'M '..I*'. 5l>1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pér
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