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which he has no fooner announced, but the fhip is 
moving in a quite contrary direction to what it was 
before, whereby it avoids ftriking the piece of ice, 
or at Jeaft, ftriking ot it with that force which it 
would otherwife have done. In this manner they 
turned the fhip feveral times in a minute ; the wind 
blowing a ftrong gale all the time. 
A little before noon, being in lat. 62° 48' N. and 
Cape Walfingham bearing S W. by S. I made the 
following obfervations for determining the magnetical 
variations. 
Alt,© 
L.L. 
Azimuth. 
Variat.W ( 
33" 
48' 
63° 
40'] 
3+ 
6 
68 
37 
37° 
19 
34 
39 
68 
30 J 
34 
54 
70 
3° a 
35 
6 
7 2 
IO 
► 39° 
6' 
35 
1 r 
7i 
0 J 
35 
18 
72 
30 1 
_ 
1 S' 
— 
22 
70 
32 
f 39 
— 
30 
74 
3° - 
The alt. of the eye was 12 feet, and the mean 
of thefe three refults gives 38° 34' for the variation 
required. But it may be neceftary to remark, that 
the very great motion which the fhip had at the 
time, renders the obfervations dubious. 
t? July 30th. This evening 1 ftaid upon deck till 
after midnight, in hopes to have obferved the 5 ’s 
diftance from a ftar; but, after trying for near an hour, 
I was obliged to give it up, on account of the twi- 
lights, which are amazingly bright in thefe high 
latitudes. There is another great inconvenience 
which attends obfervations of this kind here, viz. a 
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