intending to go to St. Lawrence Harbour, and
were almost perishing for want of subsistence." Going into Long Harbour,
23rd July, the Grenville ran on a rock and remained so fast that she had
to be unloaded before she could be floated off the next day, when she was
found to have suffered considerable damage to her forefoot.

From the log of the Grenville it appears that the survey was not carried
out continuously, and this may be accounted for by the fact that the
Governor was being called upon to settle disputes with the French
fishermen, who were only too apt to place the broadest construction on
the treaty rights accorded to them. It is very possible that Cook, during
this year, rendered assistance to Captains Debbieg and Bassett,
engineers, who were engaged in surveying important points and harbours
with a view to fortification, and Pallisser had been instructed to give
them every help. There is no positive record that Cook did assist, but
his ship was several times engaged near where they were at work, and it
seems very reasonable to suppose that he worked with them, especially as
such work might be very important to both parties.

Cook returned to Spithead on 30th November, and from thence to Deptford
for the winter, and in February obtained permission from the Admiralty to
publish the charts he had completed; Captain Pallisser, who made the
application, said he was of opinion that they "would be of great
encouragement to new adventurers on the fisheries upon those coasts."

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

He again left Deptford on 20th April 1766, and arrived at Bon Bon Bay,
1st June, to survey the south-west and south coasts. At the Burgeo
Islands, near Cape Ray, which were reached on 24th July, Cook was able to
take an observation of an eclipse of the sun occurring on 5th August. On
his return to England at the end of the year, he handed the results of
his observations to Dr. Bevis, a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society,
who communicated them to that body on 30th April 1767, and the account is
to be found in the Philosophical Transactions of that year. Dr. Bevis
describes Cook as "a good mathematician, and very expert at his
business," and says he was supplied with very good instruments; that
there were three observers "with good telescopes, who all agreed as to
the moment of beginning and ending"; that he had shown Cook's results to
Mr. George Mitchell, who had calculated therefrom the difference of
longitude between