The instruments with which the foregoing observations^ 

 have been made, are placed upon a table about 4 feet above 

 the ground in the western verandah of the Honorable Com- 

 pany's Observatory ; which is situated in the longitude 5k. 

 2lm. 9s. E. latitude 13^. Am. 9s. N. at about two miles from 

 the sea and about 27 feet above the low water mark. 



By an error of the press, the calculation in the article on 

 estimating distances at Sea, at pages 340 and 341, volume 2d, 

 has been rendered confused and unintelligible. — It should 

 have been as follows :— - 



e = 2 0 4' 25" 



4' 25"= apparent dip* 



cotang 2°0' 0"= 11.45792 



T. G. TAYLOR, 



H. C. Astronomer, 



17 th September, 1835. 



ERRATA. 



3000 

 141 



3000 



= 3.47712 

 11.45692 



2859 4« 3.45621 

 11.55692 



4.93404 



&c 0 &c. 



4.91313 



8cc, See, 



