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B O O K III.
C H A P . I.
The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay, on the E ajt1
Coafi o f N ew Holland, now called New South W ales ;
•various Incidents that happened there; with fame Account,
o f the Country and its Inhabitants.
HAVING failed from Cape Farewell, wRich lies in lati- ^770?
tude 46° 33' S., longitude 1860 W. on Saturday the 31ft’ ,— j-
of March 1770, we fleered weftward, with a frefh gale at Saturday 3tr.
N.N.E. and at noon on the 2d of April, our latitude, by ob-
Ifervation, was 40°, our longitude from Cape Farewell 2°31 W.
In the morning of the 9th, being in latitude 38“ 29'S.wefaw Monday 9,-
a tropic bird, which in fo high a latitude is very uncommon.
In the morning of the 10th, being in latitude 38° 51' S. Tuefdayts.-
Longitude 2020 43 W. we found the variation, by the.'ampli*-
mde, to be 1 1° 25 E. and by the azimuth.n° 20',
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