24 A VOYAGE TO : [At Madeira. 
1801. every thing connected with the defence of the island would be com- 
Thursday 6. mitted to them. This was the state of things when I v took leave of 
captain Bo wen and of colonel Clinton. 
Water, wine, and fresh beef, were the supplies procured at 
Madeira. Wine for the ship's company was charged at the enormous 
price of 55. 8d. per gallon, and the beef at lod. per pound ; I there- 
fore took only small quantities of each. For good Madeira, we paid as 
much as £42. the pipe. Fruit and onions were in abundance, and 
probably were not of less advantage to the health of the people than 
the more expensive articles. 
The latitude observed in Funchal Road was 32° 37' 44" north. 
The longitude, as given in the Requisite Tables, is 17 0 6' 15" west ; 
but in the Connoissance des Temps for 1792, it is laid down by a 
member of the Academy of Sciences, probably the Chevalier de Borda, 
at 16 0 56' from Greenwich. Arnold's watch No. 1736, in my care, 
gave 16 0 22' 42", and the greatest longitude shown by any of the six 
time keepers was 16 0 54' 26". This was given by Earnshaw's watch 
No. 465, which had kept an uniform rate during fifteen months pre- 
viously to its being brought onboard. We made use of this watch 
to reduce some lunar observations taken a few days before arriving, 
and others after sailing, to the place of anchorage ; and the result 
was as follows : 
Ten sets of distances, east and west of the moon, 
taken by Mr. Crosley in Funchal Bay and after- o 
wards, with a Troughton's sextant, - 16 59 21 W 
Eight sets,* east and west, taken by me with a 
Troughton's circle and two sextants, before and 
afterwards, - - _ - iff 51 28 
West longitude of Funchal by lunar observations, lfT^/j 24 
* Four of these are uncorrected for the erros of the lunar and solar tables. They 
were taken Aug. 29, on which day no observation of the moon was made at Greenwich • 
and the errors observed on the 27th and 30th were so irregular, that no proportion can be 
made between them with any prospect of accuracy. Were the errors of the 30th applied, 
the longitude of Funchal would be 4' less. 
