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Received November 9, 1769. 
VI. An Account of the Refult of fome 
Attempts made to afcertain the ’Tempera- 
ture of the Sea in great Depths , near 
the Coajls of Lapland and Norway ; as 
alfo fome Anecdotes, colleBed in the former . 
By Charles Douglas Efquire , F. R. S. 
then Captain of his Mafefly s Ship the 
Emerald, Anno 1769. 
Read Feb. 8 , TV /FAY the 1 2th, 1769, between the 
iflands of Surey and Hammerfefl, 
in Lapland, in the latitude of yc 40', between the 
hours of 6 and 9 p. m. the thermometer flood in 
the open air at 27, in the fea at the furface 36, 
and in three feveral depths, from 87 to 78 fathoms 
at the bottom, as often tried, at 39. 
May 17th, in nearly the fame place, the thermo- 
meter having at noon flood in the open air at 44, 
flood between 7 and 9 p. m. at 38, at the furface 
3 7 j and at the bottom in the depths of 86 and 90 
fathoms, having been twice tried, at 39. 
May 22d, in lat. 70° 32', between the ifland of 
Hammerfefl and the main land of Finmark, about 
7 P- m - 
