( t*9 ) 
The Eclipfe ended in or about the A 7 ", N.E, Part of 
the Solar Disk, at 3 h 5*9'* P. M. at which Time the 
Sun’s Altitude was 2,8° 34'. 
By comparing thefe Obfervations with a Calculation 
which I made from Mr. Flamflead ’ s Tables, I judg’d 
Vera Cruz to lie 97 0 30' to the Weftward of the Me- 
ridian of the fa id Tables. 
We had here alfo a Lunar Eclipfe September zq c 
1 716, O. A. b ut it happen’d to be a little cloudy about 
the Time of its Beginning and Ending, fo that we could 
not get a juft Obfervation. 
In the Years 1 726, and 17x7, I obferved here the 
Magnet ick Variation feveral Times,. and found it to be 
about z\ Degrees Eafterly. 
We alfo obferv’d the Variation feveral Times on our 
Voyage from England towards Vera Cruz ; (having on 
Board a good Azimuth Compafs)but I always found that 
the beft Obfervations we could make, when compared 
together, differ’d fo much, that we could not depend 
upon them, to much lefs than three or four Degrees,, 
or fometimes half a Point of the Compafs. 
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