Lately, publifhecL, .
THE O R I G I NA L
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS*
M A D E I.N T H E C O U R S E O P
A V O Y A G E towards the S O U T H ,
A N D
R O U N D T H E W O R L D ,
In his M a j e s t y ’ s Ships .the R E SO L U T IO N and ADVENTURE*
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Determining the Variations of the Compafs, the Latitude of the Ship, and
her Longitude, both by Obfervations of the Moon’s Diftance from the
Sun and Fixed Stars* and alfo by Four different Time-Keepers:
T O G E TH E R W ITH
Accurate Journals of the Ship’ s Place every Day at Noon by each o f thefe Methods,
and alfo by the dead Reckoning, and the true Situations' o f all the Places feen
in that Voyage, as deduced therefrom.
T O WHICH A R E ADDED, '
The Times o f High and Low Water, and alfo the Height o f the Tides at thofe Places j
Meteorological Journals of the Weather 5 and many other interefting and ufeful
Aftronomical, Hydrographical, and Philofophical Obfervations and Experiments.
Made by W I L L I A M W A L E S , F .R .S .
Now Mailer o f the Royal Mathematical School in Chrift’s Hofpital 5
And Mr. W I L L I A M B A Y L E Y ,
' Late Afliftant at the Royal Obfervatory.
This work is publilhed by Order o f the Commiffioners of Longitude, at whofe Expence
the Obfervations were made; and is ^printed on the fame Size with Captain Cook’s
Voyage, for the Conveniency o f thofe Purchafers who may choofe to bind them together.
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r N D T H E w O R L D.
B O O K III.
From Ulietea to New Zealand.
C H A P . I.
Pajfage from Ulietea to the Friendly Ife s; with a Defcrip-
tion of feveral Ifands that were difcovered, and the
Incidents which happened in that "Track.
ON the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at '774-
eleven o’clock A. M., we faw land bearing N. W., -
which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a °” ay
low reef ifland about four leagues in compafs, and of a circular
form. It is compofed of feveral fmall patches connected
together by breakers, the largeft lying on the N. E. part.
This is Howe Ifland, difcovered by Captain Wallis, who, I
V ol. II. b think,