< 3 9i ) 
I proceeded further to think, that if the aforefaid 
Societies fhould judge it improper to be at fo great an 
Expence as would be requifite in printing fo many Ex- 
tracts from fuch Journals as fhould be fent to them; that 
they might notwithftanding keep in Manufcript a Book 
of Tables of fuch Marine Obfervations , as they fhould 
think, fit to colled: therefrom ; and that the Secretaries 
of the Society (who for the mofl Part are fuch Gentle- 
men as have in a particular Manner difcover’d a gene- ‘ 
rous Principle of promoting Natural Knowledge) fhould 
take Care, that all fuch Obfervations were transcribed in 
their proper Places. 
The Form of thefe Tables I thought might be in the 
following Manner. 
January the Firjt , 1726. 
Longitude. 
20. | 
21. 
1 , 
22. 
r 
po 
H. 
W. 
D 
Weather. 
W. 
D. 
Weather. 
! W. 
D. 
Weather. 
r—f 
►— * • 
12 . 
N. 
2. 
Fair. 
P 
a- 
6. 

(D 
12. 
NbE 
3 . 
Fair. 
• . 
30 . 
6. 
— . — 

12* 
SbE 
2. 
Cloudy. 
6> 
2. 
Rain. 
12. 
S 
3 . 
Stm.ofRain. 
31 . 
6. 
SbE 
2. 
Rain. 
In which the Title fhews the Tear , Months and 
T)ay^ the horizontal Space juft below it, the Longi- 
tudes ^ the vertical Space without the double Lines, the 
Latitudes ^ that within the double Lines , the Hour of 
the Day } and the horizontal fpaces under the Longi- 
tudes, 
