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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 1
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At 1 a.m.the Peak of Teneriff bore West-North-West.
Found the Variation to be this morning 16 degrees 14 minutes West.

The Peak of Teneriff (from which I now take my departure) is a very high Mountain upon the Island of the same name--one of the Canary Islands.

Its perpendicular higth from Actual Measurement is said to be 15,396 feet.* (* The received height is 12,180 feet.

Latitude 28 degrees 16 minutes North, Longitude 16 degrees 38 minutes West.) It lies in the Latitude of 28 degrees 13 minutes North, and Longitude 16 degrees 32 minutes from Greenwich.

Its situation in this respect is allowed to be pretty well determined.


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