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Postscripr.—March 22. I have just seen the Gazette of last 
Saturday night, wherein is contained a scale of rewards, approved 
by the Prince Regent, for such ships as may arrive al certain 
points of longitude and latitude therein mentioned ; and which 
I presume is intended as an additional bounty to the officers and 
sailors about to be employed in a new expedition towards the 
North Pole. But in that scale I see no reward, or expectation 
of reward, held out to such persons as may be induced to attempt 
any improvement in the method of discovering the longitude at 
sea, the sole object for which this body of Commissioners was 
formed ; and which ought certainly to have first engaged their 
serious attention. The mew Board of Commissioners has existed 
now about a twelvemonth ; a sufficient time, one would suppose, 
to have matured a plan for the encouragement of this object: but 
alas! this important subject must yield to the fashionable im- 
pulse of the times ; and, when the mania for arctic discoveries has 
ceased, the learned Commissioners may perhaps find leisure to at- 
tend to their duty. 
Besa 
Corrections of the Nautical Almanac for 1819. 
[From another Correspondent ] 
S1r,—The inclosed list of corrections of errors in the Nautical 
Almanac for the year 1819, if printed in The Philosophical Maga- 
zine, must be found very useful to all persons who use the Alisanac. 
March 19, 1819. AsTRONOMICUS. 
Omissions of the following eclipses : 
March 25. Sun eclipsed invisible at Greenwich. 
g at 11223™40%6; )’s long. 4° 29'32"2; )’s lat. 1° 26’ 7-48. 
Oct..18th. Sun eclipsed invisible at Greenwich. 
d at 15955™ 1882; )’slong. 6° 24° 55' 345; p’s lat. 1° 1458S. 
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1. Among other phenomena, for 84 115 12™, read 84 108 4™, 
2 Column of declination, 2d line, for 23 58 54, read 22 58 54. 
2:4), Do. do. 13th line, for 21 34 10, read 21 34 40. 
4. + ala 6th line, for days, read day, 
4 Column3, .. 12th line, for 6 22, read 0 42. 
4. Last line and Jast column of Venus, for 21 13, read 21 23, 
g. Column Noon of Arietis, for 40 35 43, read 40 55 43. 
13. Among other phenomena, for 4 7 26 read 4 16 19. 
15 Cclumn 2d Satellite, last line but one, for 17 46 38, read 
7 46 38. 
16, Column 3, 10th day, for 3 40, read 1 40. 
16. Saturn, Ast line, 4th column, for 11 6 18, read 11 16 18. 
18. Last column, Ist day, for 16 54, read 16 54 N, ® 
18. 5th day, column 6, for 88 44, read 89 44. 
18. 19th day, column 5, for.260 27, read 200 24. 
19. 14th day, last column, for 5089, read 5012. 
20, Last line 4th column, for 39 2 41, read 3g 2 14, 
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