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96 becaue in the latter cae the pectator is ituated between the rainbow and the un. Thus the maller circle was terminated at its interior margin by the red colour, and at its exterior by the violet; whilt the larget exhibited the red at its exterior, and the violet at its interior.

We were then in lat. 32° 42′ S. long. 7° E.

On the 7th of January we paed under the meridian of Paris, in 33° S. lat.

Having plunged the aërometer of Beaumé in the ea-water, in order to determine its pecific gravity, it indicated 3° 4-5ths. I had obtained the ame reult from a imilar experiment which I made near the Equator. Hence it appears that the altnes of the ea does not perceptibly vary in different parts of the ocean, though very ditant from each other, and heated to very different degrees of temperature by the rays of the un.

On the 9th, we began to exercie the crews of both hips in hooting at a mark. A prize of mall value was the reward of thoe who hit an object fixed to one of the fore-ail booms. We were pleaed to oberve that mot of our men took very good aim, though they had never been accutomed to the ue of fire-arms. It was a matter of conequence, in an expedition like ours, in the coure of which we might ometimes be under the neceity of defending ourelves againt the