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RECORD AND RESULTS OP 



Gale Point, near Cape Isabella, Smith Strait. 

 Observations for latitude at anchorage off Gale Point, July 2Y, 1861.' 



Meridian altitude of the sun. S. J. McCormick, observer. 

 Gale Point bears S. W. (true), and Cape Isabella N. E. by N. (true). 

 Observed altitude O 30° 45' 40" Approximate longitude S*" 5" 



Dip and index correction, — 3 19 



Refr'n — par. — 



Semidiameter, + 



True altitude, 



S at apparent noon, 



q, 18 11 29 



Observations for longitude, sights taken from a grounded iceberg off Gale Point. 

 Double altitudes of the sun. S. J. McCormick, observer. July 28 (29th A. M.) 



30 



42 



21 





1 



30 





15 



48 



30 



56 



39 



19 



08 



08 



Pocket ohronometer 



2© 





2" 39" 



58= 



55° 29 



30 



40 



22 



31 



50 



40 



56 



34 

 20 



40 



2 41 



25 



55 36 



00 



42 



03 



38 



20 



42 



27 



39 



50 



about 



T = + 50° I 



B = 29'". 8 at 54° | 



Approximate longitude, 5'' 6™ 



Index correction, 0' 0" 



Refr.— par. —1' 42" 



Semidiameter, +15' 48" 



/!,= 28° 01' 37" 6 =18° 41' 35" 



< = _ 36° 19' 00" JS^ + 6" 10' 



Chronometer time of observation, 2'' 41"" 11° 



Reduction' to refer pocket ch'r to ch'r 2007, — 1 33 



(2007) Chronometer time of observation, 2 39 38 

 Mean time of observation, 21 40 54 



A r off Gale Point, —4 58 44 



A r Port Fonlke, —4 46 55 (see preceding table of a T and STof 2007) 



Iceberg off Gale Point, W. of Port Foulke, 11 49 



Longitude of position, 5 03 49 west of Greenwich. 



The following observations on Upper Baffin Bay conclude the scries of geogra- 

 phical positions : — 



Netlik, SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO WhALE SoUND. 



Observations for latitude at north point of harbor, close to Esquimaux huts, August 5, 1861. 

 Meridian altitude of the sun. S. J McCormick, observer. 



20 

 Index correction. 



Altitude observed, 

 Refr'n — par., 

 Semidiameter, 



h 

 S at apparent noon, 



59° 01' 20" 

 00 



T = + 47c 



29 30 



40 



— 1 



35 



+ 15 



49 



29 44 



54 



16 52 



40 



about 



B = 29'».9 at 50°^ 

 Approximate longitude, 4'' 46°^ 



77 07 46 



' There is some doubt about the date ; the record gives 28th, but the statement that the position 

 is about 10 miles south of Cape Isabella and the plotted position on the track chart, accord well 

 with the corrected date, and with the above resulting latitude. 



" Chronometer comparison: 2007, O*" 34", Pocket chronometer O'' 35" 3312. 



