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Next day, a fresh breeze at S. E. and hazy foggy 

 weather, except a few hours in the morning, when 

 we found the variation to be 1° 28' E., latitude 55° 17', 

 longitude 125° 41' W. The variation after this was 

 supposed to increase ; for on the 4th, in the morning, 

 being in latitude 53° 21', longitude 121° 31' W., it 

 was 3° 16' E. ; in the evening, in latitude 53° 13', 

 longitude 119° 46' W. it was 3° 28' E. ; and on the 

 5th, at six o'clock in the evening, in latitude 53° 8', 

 longitude 115° 58' W., it was 4° 1' E. 



For more than twenty-four hours having had a fine 

 gale at S., this enabled us to steer E., with very little 

 deviation to the N. ; and the wind now altering to 

 S.W. and blowing a steady fresh breeze, we con- 

 tinued to steer E., inclining a little to S. 



On the 6th, had some snow showers. In the 

 evening, being in latitude 53° 13', longitude^lll 12', 

 the variation was 4° 58' E. ; and the next morning, 

 being in latitude 58° 16', longitude 109° 33', it was 

 5° 1' E. 



The wind was now at W., a fine pleasant gale, 

 sometimes with showers of rain. Nothing remark- 

 able happened, till the 9th, at noon, when being in 

 the latitude of 53° 37', longitude 103° 44' W„ the 

 wind veered to N. E. and afterwards came insensibly 

 round to the S., by the E. and S.E. attended with 

 cloudy hazy weather, and some showers of rain. 



On the 10th, a little before noon, latitude 54°, 

 longitude 102° 7' W., passed a small bed of sea- weed. 

 In the afternoon the wind veered to S.W., blew a 

 fresh gale, attended with dark cloudy weather. We 

 steered E. half a point N. ; and the next day, at six 

 in the evening, being in latitude 53° 35', longitude 

 95° 52' W., the variation was 9° 58' E. Many and 

 various sorts of albatrosses about the ship. 



On the 12th, the wind veered to the W.N. W. and 

 in the evening to N. ; and, at last, left us to a calm. 

 That continued till midnight, when we got a breeze 

 at S. ; which, soon after, veering to, and fixing at,. 



