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1778. But by reducing each fet taken before' 

 ^" we arrived in the Sound, and after 





we left it, by the time-keeper, and 

 adding them up with thofe made 

 on the fpot, the mean of the 137 

 fets will be - - - - 



Longitude by the C Greenwich rate - 235° 46' 51", o'" 

 time-keeper Juiietearate - 233° 59' 24", o'" 



From the refults of the laft fifteen days obfervations of 

 equal altitudes of the Sun, the daily rate of the time-keeper 

 was lofmg, on mean time, 7" ; and on the i6th of April, flie 

 was too flow for mean time, by 16'' o" 58", 45'. There was- 

 found an irregularity in her rate, greater than at any time- 

 before. It was thought proper to reject the firfl: five days, 

 as the rate in them differed fo much from that of the fif- 

 teen following ; and even in thefc, each day differed fromi 

 another more than ufual. 



Variatiofi of the Compafs. 



Anril Ath S A- M. 7 Obfcrvatory, r i5<> 57' 48^" , , 



^P"' ^'''- 2 P. M.! Mean of four needles i 15' 41' 2" S '5^9 25 Eaft. 



5th. r A. M. J On board the fliip, r 19° 50' 49" 7 ^ ' i- 

 17th. i P. M.J Mean of four needles tig 38' 46" V^ ^ ^^i 



The variation found on board the fhip, ought to be taken 

 for the true one ; not only as it agreed with what we ob- 

 fcrved at fea ; but becaufe it was found, that there was 

 Ibmething afliore that had a confiderable effei5t upon the 

 compaffes ; in fome places more than others: At one fpot, 

 on the Wefl point of the Sound, the needle was attra6lcd 

 11; points from its proper direction. 



7 Inclination 



