The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Cadiz; March 9. By letters from Mexico we have an account of the death of the Abbe d'Auteroche, and one of the two officers of the Spanish Marine, who had sailed with that gentleman to the Island of California. They fell sick, with every one who accompanied them, on the 14th of June, the very day after they had made their observation of the Transit of Venus over the Sun. This observation, according to the same letters, was made with all possible advantages, the day being extremely fine, and the air remarkably serene. We learn, moreover, that the Sieur Paly, the famous geographer, who was among those who fell sick happily arrived, on the 14th of October, at Port St. Blaise, in the White Sea, with all those who had the good fortune to escape the epidemical disease with which they were visited.---Much is expected from the success of the observation, which was the grand object of the voyage of these astronomers.