MADE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



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REMARKS. 



In tlie monlli of January I was seldom at sea; and indeed 

 the weather is so boisterous in that as well as the other win- 

 ter months, that it is difficult, l)y celestial observations, to de- 

 tect a current. Nor can sufficient leliance be [jlacedonthc 

 steerage of the ship, or courses and distances by log, to be 

 certain of the true cause of any disac;rcement between the 

 dead reckoning and observations. But when the disagree- 

 ment happens to be on the same side, not only during se- 



