C H A P. IL
'^aI fag i oi the Refolution Jo Tenerijfe.— Reception there._
Defcription o f Santa Crus; Road.— Refrefhments to be
met with.— Obfervations fo r fix in g the Longitude o f
Teneriffe.— Some Account o f the. JJland.— Botanical Obfervations.
Cities o f Santa Crus: and Laguna.—
A g ricu ltu re.— A ir and Climate.— Commerce.— Inhabitants.
T T J E had not been long out of Plymouth Sound, before
the wind came more wefterly, and blew frelh, fo
that we were obliged to ply down the Channel ; and it was
Wlimmtif11 n0t . the 14th* at in the evening, that we were off
the Lizard.
Tueflay 16. 0 n the ,6th, at noon, St. Agnes’s Light-houfe on the Mes
o f Scilly, bore North Weft by Weft, diftant feven or eight
miles. Our latitude was, -now, 53' 30" North, and our
longitude, by the watch; 6° 11' Weft. Hence, I reckon that
St. Agnes’s Light-houfe is in 49° 57' 30" North latitude, and
• in 6° 20' of Weft longitude.
S a l/ ,« . ‘0n the r7th * and l8th we were off Uihant, and found the
llongitude of the ifland to be, by the w a tch , 5° 18' 37" Weft
.The variation was 23“ .0' jo", in the fame direiftion.
* It appears from Captain Cook’s log-book, that he began his judicious operations
for preferving the health of his crew, very early in the voyage. On the 17th the
fhip was fmoked between decks with gun-powder. The fpare falls alfo,were’ then
well aired, 4
With a flrong gale at South, on the 19th, we flood to the ycfi
weftward, till eight o’clock in the morning; when, the wind * J“ly' -
fiu&igg to the Weft and North Weft, we tacked and ftretch- Fridayi9’
ed to the Southward. At this time, we faw nine fail of
large ihips, which we judged to be French men of war.
They took no particular notice of us, nor we o f them.
At ten o’clock in the morning of the 22d, we faw Cape Monday s,
Ortegal; which at noon bore South Eaft, half South, about
four leagues diftant. At this time we were in the latitude
of 44 6 North; and our longitude, by the watch, was 8°'
23' Weft.
After two days o f calm weather we paffed Cape Fini-
fterre, on the afternoon of the 24th, with a fine gale at w s r
North North Eaft.. The longitude o f this Cape, by the
watch, is 9 29'Weft; and, by the mean of forty-one lunar
obfervations, made before and after we paffed it, and reduced
to it by the watch, the refult was 9° 19' 12"..
On the 30th, at fix minutes and thirty-eight feconds paft T«efflay».
ten o’clock at night, apparent time, I obferved, with a
night telefcope, the moon totally eclipfed. By the cphemeris,
the fame happened at Greenwich at nine minutes paft eleven
o’clock; the difference being one hour, two minutes,
and twenty-two feconds, or 15° 35' 30" of longitude. The
watch, for the fame time, gave 15» 26' 45" longitude Weft;
and latitude 310 10'North. No other’ obfervation could be
made on this eclipfe, as the moon was hid behind the
clouds the greater part of the time; and, in particular,
when the beginning and end of total darknefs, and the end
. o f the eclipfe, happened.
Finding that we had not hay and corn fufficient for the
fubfiftence of the ftock of animals on board, till our arrival
at