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discoveries there are very valuable. His tour will be of great ad- 
vantage to geographers; for he has accurately determined the. 
longitude and latitude of the greater part of the places through 
which he passed, having been accompanied by his brother Capt. 
Corry of the Navy, who had with him an excellent sextant. On 
his Lordship’s return to England he will publish his travels. 
XXXIV. On the Nautical Almanac. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Sir, — I HAVE just seen the second edition of the Nautical Al- 
manac for 1819, which the editors of that work have at length 
thought proper to publish without the stamp. The former price. 
of the almanac was six shillings; but the stamp (which was 
Sifteen pence) being deducted, it ought now to be sold for four 
shillings and ninepence. The price however charged to the public 
is five shillings, being an addition of three-pence to the original 
charge of the work: andy as such, must be considered as an ad- 
ditional tax on the public. _ If the profits of this publication were 
to go towards increasing the salaries of the computers, and there- 
by hold out an inducement towards the more perfect conducting 
of that work, the public need not complain; but it is much to 
be feared that this additional charge only goes to enrich the in- 
dolent bookseller, and uot the laborious calculator: and conse- 
quently ought to be resisted, as being contrary to the spirit of the 
new act of parliament. 
By that statute it is moreover declared, that all the clauses in 
former acts relative to rewards for discovering the longitude at sea 
are repealed: and a new scale of rewards is ordered to be made 
out and advertised in the London Gazette, in lieu of the former 
ones. Yet in defiance of this injunction, and with six additional 
labourers appointed by the act, for the more perfect conducting 
of this work, the second edition of the Nautical Almanac above 
mentioned, has just been published, containing (as usual) the 
clauses in the aforesaid acts of parliament; which, being repealed, 
consequently hold out a false hope of reward to such as are now 
disposed to attempt the difficult problem above alluded to. If 
the new scale of rewards is actually made out, and has received 
the approbation of the Prince Regent. in council, (as provided by 
the act,) it ought to have been published in this second edition: 
but on no account ought the obsolete clauses of the former acts 
to have disgraced its pages, published, as it is, under the authority 
of the new Board of Longitude. 
I say that this second edition must be considered as published 
under the direction, and by the authority of the new Board of 
Longitude ; 
