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|ui,e. decreafe, as there were feveral dlfFerent obfervatlons 

 taken both in the morning and evening, which agreed 

 perfedliy well with each other, without any apparent 

 caufe which could produce an error a£Fedling all the ob- 

 fervations of either fet. At eight in the evening the lon- 

 gitude by the moon was I2* 57' 30'' E, which differed 

 2° 35' from that by the watch. Little wind at night. 



26th. Little wind all day; the weather very fine and 

 moderate. The latitude obferved at noon was 74° 25'. 

 The thermometer expofed to the fun, which fhone very 

 bright, rofe from 41° to 61° in twenty minutes. By each 

 of two lunar obfervations which I took with a fextant of 

 four inches radius, at half pafl: one, the longitude was 

 9° 51 3^" -^ > which agreed within thirty-feven minutes 

 with an obfervation made by the watch at half an hour 

 after three, when the longitude was 8' 52' 30'' E. Dip 

 79 22. 



27th. At midnight the latitude obferved was 74" 26'. 

 The wind came to the S W, and continued fo all day, 

 with a little rain and fnow. The cold did not increafe. 

 We fleered N b E. At feven in the morning the varia- 

 tion, by a mean of feveral obfervations, was found to be 

 20° 38' W. We were in the evening, by all our reckon- 

 ings, in the latitude of the South part of Spitfbergen, 

 without any appearance of ice or fight of land, and with 

 a fair wind. 



28th. 



