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NO. 1. I think it more consistent with the respect I owe to the public, and myself, to speak out plainly, than to have recourse to insinuations, on a subject of this nature; I therefore declare, that I am not satisfied with the truth of his reporting other observations relative to the Longitude, as I do maintain that in both his voyages the observations which he said he made the land by, were not calculated till after he had seen the land; and I am certain those