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to winter here, who all periflied. The Dutch fhips flill Auguft. 

 refort to this place for the latter feafon of the whale 

 fifhery. 



1 2 th. Got the inftruments on fhore, and the tent 

 pitched ; but could not make any obfervations this day or 

 the next, from the badnefs of the weather. 



•13th. Rain, and blowing hard : two of the Dutch fhips 

 failed for Holland. 



14th. The weather being fine and little wind, wc 

 began our obfervations. 



1 8th. Completed the obfervations.- Calm all day. 

 During our ftay, I again fet up the pendulum, but was 

 not fo fortunate as before, never having been able to get 

 an obfervation of a revolution of the fun, or even equal 

 altitudes for the time. We had an opportunity of deter- 

 mining the refradion at midnight, which anfwered within 

 a few feconds to the calculation in Dr. Bradley's table, al- 

 lowing for the barometer and thermometer. Being within 

 fight of Cloven Cliff, I took a furvey of this part of Fair 

 Haven, to connedl it with the plan of the other part. Dr. 

 Irving climbed up a mountain, to take its height with the 

 barometer, which I determined at the fame time geome- 

 trically with great care. By repeated obfervations here we 

 found the latitude to be 79° 44', which by the furvey 



correfponded 



