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579. May 1771 St Helena
2. As the fleet was to Sail immediately & our ship to accompany it it became necessary to make as much of a short time as possible so this whole day was employd in riding about the Island in the course of which we made very nearly the Compleat Circuit of it visiting all the most remarkable places that we had been told of
3. Spent this day in Botanizing on the Ridge where the Cabbage trees grow visiting Cuckolds point & Dianas peak the Highest land in the Island as settled by the Observations of Mr Maskelyne, who was sent out to this Island by the Royal Society for the Purpose of Observing the transit of Venus in the Year
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