By that day he had run down thirteen degrees of longitude, in the very latitude assigned for Bouvet's Land.

No such land, however, was discovered; nor did any proofs occur of the existence of Cape Circumcision.

Our commander was at this time no more than two degrees of longitude from the route he had taken to the south, when he left the Cape of Good Hope.

It would, therefore, have been to no purpose to proceed any farther to the east in this parallel.

But being desirous of determining the question concerning some land that was supposed to have been seen more to the south, he directed his course for the situation in which the discovery of it might be expected.