Miscellanies . t 1 JOURNAL O F A VOYAGE in 1775. To explore the coaft of America, Northward of California, By the fecond Pilot of the Fleet,. Don FranciscoAntonio Maurelle, in the Kings Schooner,called the Sonora, and commanded by DonJuan Francisco de la Bodega* [ 471 ] PREFACE of Don ANTONIO MAURELLK FOR the better undemanding this Journal, it will be properto premife the following particulars. The charts which we ufed during the voyage were thofe ofMonf. Bellin, the one publifhed in 1766, and the other in 17—;the firft of which places the port of St. Bias, no degrees W»Long, from Paris, and
Miscellanies . t 1 JOURNAL O F A VOYAGE in 1775. To explore the coaft of America, Northward of California, By the fecond Pilot of the Fleet,. Don FranciscoAntonio Maurelle, in the Kings Schooner,called the Sonora, and commanded by DonJuan Francisco de la Bodega* [ 471 ] PREFACE of Don ANTONIO MAURELLK FOR the better undemanding this Journal, it will be properto premife the following particulars. The charts which we ufed during the voyage were thofe ofMonf. Bellin, the one publifhed in 1766, and the other in 17—;the firft of which places the port of St. Bias, no degrees W»Long, from Paris, and the fecond 114, differing confequently4 degrees. For this reafon I have always reckoned the WefternLongitude from St. Bias3, and not from Paris. At the end there is an accurate table, every page of which in-cludes a month, with an account of the Ships courfe each day,,together with the number of leagues failed, the longitude, lati-tude, variation of the needle (which laft, when attended to, ismarked with an
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