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fet at twenty- four minutes part nine, and bore about June. 

 N N W by the compafs. The clouds made a beautiful " " 

 appearance long after to the Northward, from the re- 

 fledlion of the fun below the horizon. It was quite light 

 all night : the Carcafs made the fignal for feeing the land 

 in the evening, 



14th. Little wind, or calm, all day j but very clear 

 and fine weather. Made feveral different obfervations for 

 the longitude by the fun and moon, and by my watch. 

 The longitude of the fhip was found by my watch, at 

 ten in the morning, to be 1° 11' 45'^ W. The longitude 

 by the lunar obfervations differed near two degrees from 

 one another. By the mean of them the iliip was in lon- 

 gitude 2° 57' 45" W. Some Shetland boats came on 

 board with fi£h. At noon the latitude by obfervation 

 was 60° 16' 45"^^ At one in the afternoon the dip was 

 obferved to be 73" 30'; and at eight, 75° 18^: the even- 

 ing calm, and very fine ; the appearance of the fky to the 

 Northward very beautiful. Variation, by the mean of 

 feveral obfervations, 22° 25' W. 



15th. By an obfervation at eight in the morning, the 

 longitude of the fiiip was by the watch 0° 39' W : Dip 74"" 

 52'. At half pafl: ten in the morning, the longitude, 

 from feveral obfervations of the fun and moon, was o" 

 17' W; at noon being in latitude 60" 19' 8% by 

 obfervation, I took the diltance between the two Oiips by 



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