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7 December 1769
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James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia
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The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth
1769
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Thursday 7th PM A fresh breeze from the westward and Clear weather. At 3 oClock took several observations of the Sun and Moon the mean result of them gives 185°..36' West Longitude from the meridian of Greenwich — What winds we have had this 24 hours hath been againest us so that at Noon we had advanced but very little to the Westward —
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