156 GEELMUYDEN. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. [NORW. POL. EXP. NO. 6.| 
N. Lat. ET ical 
ons hm s 
1 and 5 = el = = = Assuming the mean acceleration 128.5 this clock 
2 and 6 2 = error would correspond to 4 = 4° 50’; an accele- 
: = Z = = = a a ration of 93.5 would give 14 = 5° 12’ 
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ean 79 53.1 | —1 22 8 
This was the last observation. After some hours of rowing on the morning of June 15 
and a necessary repairing of one of the kayaks the following day, the travellers met Mr. Jackson 
on June 17. 
On June 18 a comparison with Jackson’s chronometer gave: 
Watch I 2h 10™ am = I—Gr. = 0b 20m 40s,7. 
Applying to this the loss through stopping 44 24m 6s, mentioned above, and acceleration 
1225 daily in 3.7 days, the result will be: 
1896 June 14, Watch 1 15 49™ pm  I—Gr. = 4b 44m js 
which combined with the above correction to Local Time will give: 
Longitude of Station June 14 = 3h 21m 18s = 50° Q' E 
Applying further A= oD 
the longitude of the Winter Hut will be 55° 10’ E, or 55° 20’ by application of the correction 
of + 10’ to the longitude of Cape Flora mentioned in the introduction. 
On comparing this result with the longitude of the Winter Hut given on p. 125 as 
following from the observations of the preceding year, it will be seen that if the mean rate of 
watch I has not differed sensibly from the then assumed value 12* a day, which was very 
nearly the same as that found during the travelling in 1896, the quantity J of the preceding 
year may be neglected. 
