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little way from the coast ; nor was it either consistent 

 or uniform. To the north of Cape Prince of Wales, 

 we found neither tide nor current, either on the 

 American or on the Asiatic coast, though several 

 times looked for. This gave rise to an opinion enter- 

 tained by some on board our ships, that the two coasts 

 were connected either by land or by ice ; which 

 opinion received some strength, by our never having 

 any hollow waves from the north, and by our seeing 

 ice almost the whole way across. 



The following are the results of the several ob- 

 servations made ashore, during our stay in the har- 

 bour of Samganoodha. 



The latitude, by the mean of several observed^ _, n 

 meridian altitudes of the sun - - J 



fBy the mean of twenty sets of lunar 1 

 The Ion- ' observations, with the sun east of the > 1 93 47 45 

 . | " ^ moon - - - - y 



| By the mean of fourteen sets, with the 1 , qc , , , .- 



^sun and stars west of the moon - j 



The mean of these - - - 193 29 45 



The longitude assumed - - 193 30 



By the mean of equal altitudes of the sun, taken 

 on the 12th, 14th, 17th, and 21st, the time- 

 keeper was found to be losing on mean time 8", 

 8 each day ; and on the last of these days, was 

 too slow for mean time 13 h 46 m 43 s , 98. Hence \- 200 58 27 

 the time-keeper must have been too slow, on 

 the 4th, the day after our arrival, by 13 h 44 m 

 36% 62. ; and the longitude, by Greenwich 

 rate, will be 13 h 23 ,n 53 s , 8 



By King George's (or Nootka) Sound rate 12 h ) , Q4 in R 

 56 m 40 s , 4 j iy U 



The 30th June, the time-keeper, by the same rate I j 93 j 9 q 

 gave - - - -J 



The error of the time-keeper at that time was - 18 W. 



At this time, its error was - - - 39 54 E. 



The error of the time-keeper, between our leav- ") 



ing Samganoodha and our return to it again, >- 57 54 

 was - - - - - - ) 



