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t? Augud 6th. Mr. Dymond obferved the fol- 
lowing didances of the fun and moon, which I have 
taken the liberty to tranfcribe, and calculate by Mr. 
Dunthorne’s method. 
There are no adjuftments to be 
allowed; the height of the eye above 
the water was twelve feet : and the 
longitude of the fhip, hence de- 
duced, is 94 0 7 .' \\ latit. =: eo 9 28' 
N. 
The longit. of the fhip at noon was, according to 
my obfervation of the 5th, 93 0 50 /_ l\x/- n. 
Mr. Dymond’s of this day, 94 2 1 j C 
O Auguft 7th. About 5 faw the low land of 
Cape Churchill, bearing from the S. to S. W. b. S. but 
the hazinefs of the horizon made the land put on a 
different appearance every 4' or 5'. I cannot help 
taking notice of one circumflance, as it appears to me 
a very remarkable one. Though we faw the land 
extreamly plain from off the quarter deck, and, as 
it were, lifted up in the haze, in the fame manner 
as the ice had always done ; yet the man at the 
mad head declared he could fee nothing of it. This 
appeared fo extraordinary to me, that I went to the 
main-top-mad-head myfelf to be fatisfied of the truth 
thereof ; and though I could fee it very plain both 
before I went up, and after I came down, yet could 
I fee nothing like the appearance of land when I 
was there. I had often admired the fingular ap- 
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Alt.QL.L. 
Alt. D Cent- 
60 564 
26 9 
55 2 
56 
30 
4 
55 
42 
4 
54 
27 00 
5 
54 
12 
5 I 
54 
20 
7 
5 2 i 
40 
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