^d 



GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS. 



THE CANARY ISLANDS. 



NOTES. 



1. FuNCHAL. — The latitude of Funchal is well ascertained, though from the isolated 

 position of the island there have been some differences in the longitude as given by various 

 observers. The longitude was estunated by M. Bory, in 1772, as 16° 56'. Our respected 

 countryman, Captain Fhnders, from observations in H.M.S. Investigator, 1801, made the 

 latitude of the road to be 32^ 37' 44", and the greatest longitude, by any of six chrono- 

 meters, 16° 54' 26". 



