By me at 6 53 51 with a common refractor. By Mr. Forster 6 55 23 By Mr. Wales 6 54 57 quadrant telescope. By Mr. Pickersgill 6 55 30 three feet refractor. By Mr. Gilbert 6 53 24 naked eye. By Mr. Hervey 6 55 34 quadrant telescope. --------- Mean 6 54 46-1/2 by the watch. Watch slow of} apparent time} 0 3 59 --------- Apparent time 6 58 45-1/2 end of the eclipse. Ditto 7 25 0 at Greenwich. --------- Dif. of longitude 0 26 14-1/2 = 6° 33ʹ 30ʺ The longitude observed by Mr. Wales was: By the ☽ and α Aquilæ 5° 51ʹ} Mean 6 13 0 By the ☽ and Aldebaran 6 35 } By Mr. Kendal’s watch 6° 53ʹ-7/8 The next morning, having but little wind, we hoisted a boat out, to try if there was any current, but found none. From this time to the 16th, we had the wind between the north and east, a gentle gale. We had for some time ceased to see any of the birds before mentioned; and were now accompanied by albatrosses, pintadoes, sheerwaters, &c. and a small grey peterel, less than a pigeon. It has a whitish belly, and grey back, with a black stroke across from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. These birds sometimes visited us in great flights. They are, as well as the pintadoes, southern birds; and are, I believe, never seen within the tropics, or north of the line. On the 17th, we saw a sail to the N. W. standing to the eastward, which hoisted Dutch colours. She kept us company for two days, but the third we outsailed her. On the 21st, at 7^h 30^m 20^s A. M. our longitude, by the mean of two observed distances of the sun and moon, was 8° 4ʹ 30ʺ east; Mr. Kendal’s watch at the same time gave 7° 22ʹ. Our latitude was 35° 20ʹ south. The wind was now easterly, and continued so till the 23d, when it veered to N. and N. W. after some hours calm; in which we put a boat in the water, and Mr. Forster shot some albatrosses and other birds, on which we feasted the next day, and found them exceedingly good. At the same time we saw a seal, or, as some thought, a sea-lion, which probably might be an inhabitant of one of the isles of Tristian de Cunha, being now nearly in their latitude, and about 5° east of them.