An Error noted. C. Finifterre. 
feem’d to have gone nearer to it than they 
thought they fliould. My Mafter, who was 
fomewhat troubled at it at firft, was not dif- 
pleas’d however to find that he had Company 
in his Miftake : Which, as I have heard, is a 
very common one, and fatal to many Ships. 
The Occafion of it is the not allowing for the 
Change of the Variation fince the making of 
the Charts ; which Captain Halley has obferv’d 
to be very confiderable. I (hall refer the 
Reader to his own Account of it which he 
caus’d to be Publilh’d in a fingle Sheet of 
Paper , purpofely for a Caution to fuch as 
pafs to and fro the Englijh Channel : The 1 i- 
tle of it is in the Margin. And my own Ex- 
perience thus confirming to me the Ufefulnefs 
of fuch a Caution, I was willing to take this 
occafion of helping towards the making it the 
more Publick. 
Not to trouble the Reader with every 
.Days Run, nor with the Winds or Weather 
(but only in the remoter Parts, where it may 
be more particularly ufeful) handing away 
from C. la Hague, we made the Start about 
5 that Afternoon ; which being the laft Land 
we faw of England, we reckon’d our Depar- 
ture from thence : Tho’ we had rather have 
taken it from the Lizard, if the hazy Wea- 
ther v/ould have fuffer’d us to have feen 
it. 
The firft Land we faw after we were out 
of the Channel was C. Eimfterre, which we 
made on the 19th ; and on the 28th made 
B 2 Lan- 
An Ad- 
vertife~ 
ment ne- 
cejfary to 
heobfcrvd 
in thcNa- 
vigation 
uf and 
down the 
channel of 
England* 
Sold by 
S. Smith 
ar the 
Prince\ 
Arms in 
St. Paul's 
Church- 
yard. 
Price a d. 
