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Oct.] powers, that life would be inupportable, were it not for the hope of a peedy termination of the diorder.

From the day of our etting ail, to the 5th of October, we had light breezes, that varied between the north and eat points of the compas. From that time to our arrival at Teneriffe, they blew pretty freh, varying between the north and north-eat. This alteration in the tate of the wind gave us no mall uneaines, as in our ituation it might become productive of the mot fatal conequences. Lumbered as we were in every part of the veel, and drawing coniderably above the load-water line, we ran the rik of being overet by a udden quall: beides, the towage had been very negligently performed. In this diorderly tate we had ailed from France, although the expedition had been decreed by the National Aembly almot eight months before it took place.

On the 11th of October, about fifty-five minutes after ten o'clock, we oberved an eclipe of the moon. The obervations that can be taken at ea, lead to no very accurate reults. Citizen Willaumez, however, concluded, from one which he took, that we were now in the longitude of 18° 19′ 45″ W. On the 12th, about eight in the morning,