An account of several late voyages and discoveries

tb the Streights of !\fagelÍan·i i i ~ we caJI it, which is kcpt by the Log·, nód thc bfervatioris I rnade thefe 1.. days when the Su11 ·as on the Meridian; for I find I have gone mote outherly by 1 2 Miles than the Log allows; I can't rceive any variation, and the Log is wcll_kepr, d ' the half minute Glafs good ; I jndge · the ur'rent fets to the Southwardi now the Winds are t the Eaft, and che Moon nc:1r thc full. · t · Deceml,er 30. This Afte.rnoon I took an Az.i– uth, and find fix degrees ten minutes varianon ficrly, my Obfervatíon being of a good one; Jir Weathcr to Night at 9 a C.lock, Ne.beles m.:zjor as very vifible in thc Heave~, and feems to b'e a. iece of the Milky-way broke from it; the Soutlt– rnConfieUatioñs appear which are ncar the Pole 11ttirllick, the Camelion, the Birdof Paradi[e, the ail of little Hydra, and the Water-Snake, whicft re ali finatl Stars of the ;rh and 6th Magnitude; o Pole fiar, nor anv Star fit for Obfervation to feen within i 5 degrees of the Pole, the · Cro. rs Stnrs of the firfi: and fecond Magnitude .are ood for Obfervation., and are in this form when .ey are oa th.e Mcridian above the Pole. ·111nce from the Pole 31 so. The bla~k Cloud. DHlance from the Pote. 34' · so·. ?/f DiJtance froet.the Pole, *l "' 33 • 10, * · Diílance from the Pole. 34·. SO• . A 1t of the 2.d, Mag. SorM