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probation, and friendship ; for when they appeared 

 to be satisfied, or well pleased with any thing they 

 saw, or any incident that happened, they would, 

 with one voice, call out, Wakash f wakash ! 1 shall 

 take my leave of them with remarking, that, differing 

 so essentially as they certainly do in their persons, 

 their customs, and language, from the inhabitants of 

 the islands in the Pacific Ocean, we cannot suppose 

 their respective progenitors to have been united in 

 the same tribe, or to have had any intimate connec- 

 tion, when they emigrated from their original settle- 

 ments, into the places where we now find their de- 

 scendants. 



My account of the transactions in Nootka Sound 

 would be imperfect, without adding the astrono- 

 mical and nautical observations made by us, while 

 the ships were in that station. 



Latitude. 



r^u w.j c .1 , (Sun - - 49 36' 1", 15'" 

 The latitude of the ob- } , South 49 36 g m 



servatoryby - | Stars \^ onh 49 36 10> 30 



The mean of these means - 49 36 6, 47 north. 



Longitude. 



{Twenty sets taken on the 1 9 qo 9r , , ft >. m 

 21st and 23d of March J z ~ 10 ' ' 

 Ninety-three taken at the I q 18 6 6 

 observatory - - J 

 Twenty-four taken on the 1 < 7 1fi - 

 , 1st, 2d, and 3d of May J A ' ' ' 



The mean of these means - 233 17 14, east. 



But by reducing each set taken before "J 



we arrived in the sound, and after we 



left it, by the time-keeper, and adding V233 17' 30", 5"' 



them up with thpse made on the spot, I 



the mean of the 137 sets will be - J 

 Longitude by the J Greenwich rate - 235 46' 51", 0'" 



timekeeper - ) Ulictea rate - 233 59 24, 



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