146 A VOYAGE TO Book TV. 



eleven at night, we left the fliip at anchor, and went 

 to the city in a boat; and, at 5 in the evening of the 

 25th, by the vigour of our rowers, we arrived at 

 Guayaquil, notwichftanding the ftrength of the tide 

 againft us. Here we immediately applied ourfelves 

 to fettle the pendulum but our diligence was en- 

 tirely frudrated, the air being fo filled with vapours, 

 that nothing was to be feen. 



It may not be amifs here to infert the variations 

 we obferved in different parts of the South-fea, in 

 the fame order with thofe obferved from Cadiz to 

 Carthagena. 



yl Table of Variations obferved in fever al Parts of 

 the South fea^ the Longitude reckoned from the 

 Meridian of Panama. 



Latitudes. 



Longitude. 



Variation. 



deg. min. 



cieg. 



min. 



deg. 



min. 



8 J7N. 



359 



55 



S 



45 E. 



7 49 . 



359 



42 



7 



34 



7 3^ 



359 



3^ 



7 



49 . 



7 02 



359 



18 



7 



59 



3 55 

 0 56 



35S 



21 



7 



34 



358 



43 



7 



20 



0 36 



359 



06 



8 



29 



b 20 



358 



40 



7 



25 



0 15 



358 



5^ 



7 



30 



0 22 S. 



359 



50 



8 



17 ' 



0 5 ^ Monte Chriilo bearing S. E. 



1 foutlierly.8 



00 



Island de la Plata, bearing S. 15° 45'wefterly, and 

 Monte Chrifto E. S, E. 7° 46 



2 18S. 8 00 



Cape Blanco S. S. W. 3 3^ W. 



Punto de Mero eaft northerly, T g 



diftant 3 leagues J 



