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red hazinefs round the horizon, to a confiderable 
height, rendering the flars very dim ; but at the 
fame time large, fomething like the nucleus of a 
comet. I have been difappointed by one or other 
of thefe, two or three times before ; but this is the 
more vexatious, as we are now amongft many iflands, 
headlands, &c. whofe longitudes are entirely un- 
known, and on which account an obfervation would 
have been Angularly ufeful. 
From this time to ? , Auguft 5th, no circumftance 
material happened ; but on that day I got the fol- 
lowing obfervations for determining the longitude of 
the fhip. 
DiiJ. S&O’; 
neareft Limb. 
Alt.QL.L. 
Alt. J) ’s 
Cent. 
Adjuft. Quad. 
Lat. 6 o° 46 '! N. 
73° 36' 
33° 47' 
4 8 ° 
o' 
2i + 
34 
34 9 
47 
50 
2 + 
Thefe obfervations 
32 i 
22 
47 
2 3 
3 + 
give the longit. of 
32 
35 
47 
5 
3 + 
the fhip W. 92 0 . 
32 
48 
46 
57 
2 i + 
32 
35 2 
46 
55 
5) l 3(— 2 3 6 + 
*** N. B. The 
3i 
46 
40 
height of the eye a- 
3° 
21 
46 
35 
bove the water was 
29 I 
3 2 
46 
2 3 
12 feet. 
39 
40 
46 
20 
h Augufl 
