MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS 



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The error of the watch on Greenwich mean time was + 4°" 57". A midnight altitude of 

 the sun on the same date, together with the above time observations, gives : 



I^atitude 77° 06' N. 

 I<ongitude 52° 15. 'i E of Greenwich. 



The magnetic observing tent was set up about six hundred feet distant from the alt-azi- 

 muth instrument in a direction S 10° W, and dip observations were made with dip circle 

 No. 5676 in the usual manner, giving the following results : 



Observers— W. J. Peters and R. W. Porter. 



D — Dbterminations on Plane Table Traverse 



In the course of the plane table traverse work from Teplitz Bay to Cape Flora Mr. R. W. 

 Porter made the following declination observations : 



