1823.] Col. Beaufoy's Astronomical Observations. . 173 



sufficient to ensure disappointment. Their purpose was, or 

 ought to have been, search, and nothing else ; to touch or look in 

 every where ; to rest no where a moment longer than was indis- 

 pensable. Instead of this, they were provided with naturalists, 

 astronomers, geographers, engineers, and all the paraphernalia 

 and instructions suited to a voyage of discovery; and conse- 

 quently spent much of their valuable time in details foreign to 

 that sacred duty which should have occupied their sole and 

 undivided attention. And to crown the whole, the two ships 

 were dispatched together ; instead of taking separate routes, by 

 which the chances of gaining their object would have been at 

 least doubled. However, not to dwell any longer on the mis- 

 takes of our neighbours, let us endeavour to profit by them, and 

 above all, let not the bitter reproach lie against this country of 

 having " left undone that which she ought to have done." 



Article II. 



Astronomical Observations, 1822, 1823. 

 By Col. Beaufoy, FRS. 



Bushey Heath, near Stanmore. 



Latitude 51° 37' 44-3" North. Longitude West in time 1' 20-93". 



Jan. 22. Emersion of Jupiter's second < 6h 46' 39'0" Mean Time at Bushey. 



satellite } 6 48 OO'O Mean Time at Greenwich. 



Jan. 24. Immersion of * Gemini by the) 3 5g 05 . 5 Mean Timc at Bushey . 



moon J 



Feb. 13. Emersion of K Pisces by thei 6 J6 55 . () Mean T ime at Bushey. 



moon 



Memorandum. — The greatest degree of cold last month at this place was 16° below 

 freezing, and this occurred on the morning of the 20th. 



On the 19th, when the thermometer here stood at 17£°, it sunk at Bushey Grove, 

 the seat of David Haliburton, Esq. to zero. Bushey Grove is about 200 feet lower than 

 Bushey Heath. 



