Mijcellattea Curio fa 



Names of Places. 



At Sea 



At the Ifle of St. Paul 

 At Van Dimens Land 

 At New Zealand 

 vAt Three Kings Ifle in 

 New Zealand. 



3 1 



Longitude. 



Latitude. 



Anno 



Variation* 





Dom. 





d m 



d m 





d m 



$8 oo E 



19 0 S 



1677 



27 30 W 



72 0 E 



38 0 S 



167? 



23 30 w 



142 0 E 



42 2«> S 



1642 



0 0 



170 0 E 



40 50 s 



1643 



9 0 B 



169 30 E 



34 35 S 



1642 



8 40E 



At the Ifle Rotterdam ? 

 in the South Sea 3 



184 



OO E 



20 





S 



1642 



6 20 



E 



On theCoaft otN.Guin. 



149 



GO E 



4 



30 



s 



1643 



8 4$ 



E 



At the W.P. ofJST.Guin. 



125 



00 E 



0 



26 



s 



1643 



5 30 



E 



TW I could wifh we could obtain from the Spa* 

 niards what Variations they find in their Voyages 

 from the Manilhas towards Acapulco, thorough the 

 North part of the South Sea; as likewife what it is 

 at Japan from the Dutch : Yet (confidering the num- 

 ber of thefe Obfervations I have collected, and that 

 they are made in pares of the World fo remote from 

 Europe, and from one another) I fuppofe that the 

 Theory that anfwers theft will fcarce fail in thofe 

 Regions from whence we have as yet no account. 

 But firft we muft make (bme Remarks upon the fore- 

 going Table : And, Firft, 



That in all Europe the Variation at this time is 

 Weft, and more in the Eaftern Parts thereof than 

 the Weftern : As likewife, that it feems throughout 

 to be upon the increafethat way. 



Secondly, That on the Coaft of America, about 

 Virginia, New-England and NevQ~Found!and % the V ari- 

 ation is likewife Wefterly ; and that it increafes all 

 die way as you go Northerly along the Coaft, Co as to 

 be above 20 Degrees at New-Found- Land, nearly 30 

 gr. in Hudfons Straights, and not lefs than 57 De- 

 grees in Baffin's Bay ; alfo, that as you Sail Eaft* 



