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ever having taken place in moving the numerous 

 and delicate instruments to and from the ship. 

 The observations being completed at Sierra Leone, 

 the places next to be visited were the Island of St. 

 Thomas, Ascension, Bahia, Maranham, Trinidad, 

 Jamaica, and New York; to all of which places 

 Captain Sabine was conveyed in succession by the 

 Pheasant, and made his pendulum observations at 

 each of them in a manner satisfactory to himself; 

 and those observations were published by the Board 

 of Longitude, and will briefly be noticed here. 

 The two officers, it is said, executed a valuable and 

 extensive series of observations on the direction and 

 force of the equatorial current. 



Immediately after the arrival of the Pheasant 

 in England, on the 5th February, 1823, Captain 

 Sabine suggested, through Sir Humphry Davy, that 

 the extension of similar experiments would be desir- 

 able if carried on in high latitudes, and that he 

 was ready (as he ever is when the calls of science 

 require it) to undertake this service. The Griper, 

 gun-brig, was appropriated forthwith for that pur- 

 pose ; and on the 26th February Clavering was ap- 

 pointed to command her. The plan of the voyage 

 proposed by Captain Sabine was, to proceed in the 

 first instance to Hammerfest, near the North Cape 

 of Norway, about the 70th degree of latitude ; thence 

 to a second station, in or near the 80th parallel, on 

 the northern coast of Spitzbergen ; afterwards to 



