APPENDIX. 



171 



True Bearing of 

 Celestial Object. 



Amount of Mag- 

 netic Error. 



REMARKS. 



s. 29 57 30 E. 

 s. 19 33 45 E. 



7 27 w 

 re 49 \v 



Abreast of Notting-hain and Salisbury 

 Islands. (/).) 



South. 



AV.b.S. 



5 ^Y. 

 9 w. 



We now found by repeated observa- 

 tions, that all easterly errors had ceased, 

 and that whatever correction for the 

 compasses (which were still A-^ery irregu- 

 lar) was requisite, was to the west- 

 ward, (q.) 



s. 34 12 .30 E. 

 South. 



6 5 SOW 

 9 W. 



South. < 



2 w. 



6 w. 



6 w. 



4 w. 



These observations were made while 

 wearing-, (r) 



South. 



4 ^v^. 



Minimum. 



Maximum. 



Mr, Valentine, master of the Achilles, 

 whaler, with whom I communicated in 

 Davis' Strait, informed me that he had 

 been thirty-four voyages to this country, 

 and that he knew it to be a general com- 

 plaint of the masters of ships who were 

 accustomed to fish in *' the south-west," 

 (that part of Davis's Strait near Reso- 



