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APPENDIX. 

 " There were two time-keepers fent out for trial by the 

 " Beard of Longitude ; one made by Mr. Kendal after Mr. 

 *' Harrifon's principles ; the other, by Mr. Arnold : this 

 " laft was fufpended in gimmals, but Mr. Kendal's was 

 " laid between two cufhions which quite filled up the box. 

 They were both kept in boxes fcrevved down to the 

 fhelves of the cabin, and had each three locks ; the key 

 *' of one of which was kept by the captain, of another by 

 " the firft lieutenant, and of the third by myfelf ; they 

 " were wound up each day foon afternoon, and compared 

 *' with each other and with Captain Phipps's watch. They 

 " flopped twice in the voyage, owing to their being run 

 " down ; they were fet a-going again, and as they had been 

 *' daily compared together, it was eafy to know how 

 '* long each had flopped, from the others that were flill 

 " going ; this time is allowed for in the table of the mean 

 " time at Greenwich by each time-keeper. 



*' When we were on fhore at the ifland where we ob- 

 ^* ferved July 15th, we found how much the watch was too 

 ** flow for mean time. When we returned from the ice to 

 *' Smeerenberg, and again compared the watch with the 

 " mean time, allowing the fmall difference of longitude 

 " between the idand and Smeerenberg, we found that it 

 *' went very nearly at the fame rate, as it did when tried: 

 " at Greenwich : fo that its rate of going was nearly the 

 ** fame in our run from England to the ifland, from thence 

 " to the ice and back again to Smeerenberg, and in our 

 3 '* voyage. 



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