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MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS 



Complete magnetic observations were made by the writer, and recorded 

 by J. B. Eouth. 



Clarence Town, Clarence Harbor, Long Island. 



The station is in the Government Eesideney and is marked by a three- 

 foTirth-inch copper bolt set in bed rock, between the main portion of the resi- 

 dence occupied by Magistrate W. L. Clear, and the flagstaff. It is about 40 feet 

 from the flagstaff and about 60 feet from the portico of the residence. The mark 

 used was the rod on top of the light staff on Gaspins Point. The true azi- 

 muth of this mark was found to be 28° 44.4' east of true north. 



Complete magnetic observations were made here on July 14 and 15, 1903, 

 by the writer, and recorded by J. E. Eouth. 



HoPBTOWN, Elbow Cat, Asaco. 



The observations were made on a narrow ridge between Little Harbor 

 and the southeast coast of Elbow Cay. The station is about 100 feet north- 

 east of the public schoolhouse, and about 100 feet northwest of the Episcopal 

 Church. It is marked by a limestone rock about a foot square, planted in 

 the soil. 



The mark used was the rod on top of the Elbow Cay Lighthouse, which 

 is about one-half a mile north-northwest of the station. 



Only declination and dip observations were made, cloudy weather and a 

 high northeast wind rendering it impossible to make sun observations and a full 

 series of dip and relative intensity observations. 



The observations were made by the writer, July 22, 1903, and recorded 

 by J. E. Eouth. 



TABLE I.— earlier VALUES OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS AT STATIONS IN THE 



BAHAMAS. 



No. 



Station. 



Lat. 



Long. 

 W. of Gr. 



Date. Decl'n. 



Dip. 



Hor. Int. Observer. 



1 South Biminl. 



25 42 79 17.6 



2 Nassau, on Hog I. 2.5 05.5 77 20 



Nassau 25 05 



" 25 05 



Watlings Island*. 

 Crooked Islandt. . 



9 Crooked Island.. 



77 21 

 77 21 

 77 21 

 74 25 

 74 24 

 74 24 

 74 21 



1879, Feb. 

 24, 25, 26. 

 1879, Feb. 



18-22. 



1839 



1841 



1843 



1831 



1831 



1835 



1837 



2 27.9 E. 56 20.3 0.2973 Lt. S. M. Aokley. 



1 25.6 E. 55 50.5 0.2998 



3 07 E. 



56 13 

 .56 23 



25 05 



23 57 74 25 1831 2 31 B. 



22 07 74 24 1831 4 27 E. 



22 07 74 24 1835 5 13 B. 



22 47 74 21 1837 2 34 E. 

 * Supposed landing place of Columbus, 1492. 

 t Probably should be Aoklina Island. 



Source. 



^, ■¥°,S- ^ *"'* ^' U. S. C. & G. S. Report 1881, App. 9, pp. 33-63. Nos. 3 to 9, Sabine's Contrib. XIV. 

 Phil. Trans. Boy. Soe. W,5. 



Milne. 



E. Harnett. 



Smith. 

 Austin. 

 Foster. 

 Milne. 



